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Former Canadian Minister of Defense Says: we have to be careful when dealing with Alien beings, we Could trigger An Internstellar war

Former Canadian Minister of Defense Says: we have to be careful when dealing with Alien beings, we Could trigger An Internstellar war

According to former Canadian Minister of Defense, we have to be careful when dealing with Alien beings, we could trigger an Interstellar war.

It looks like we need to watch what we are doing on Planet Earth. Former Canadian minister of defense Paul Hellyer has explicitly warned our military units to avoid shooting at UFOs.

As Minister of Defence, he oversaw the drastic and controversial integration and unification of the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Air Force into a single organization, the Canadian Forces. His position gave him access to several classified documents among which were those about Extraterrestrial life and UFOs.

Hellyer believes that Extraterrestrial species have visited our planet for thousands of years.

Hellyer firmly believes that we are not the only intelligent species in the cosmos and believes that Earth has been visited by Extraterrestrial beings for thousands of years. Hellyer, a former politician, writer and commentator believes that alien beings still walk among us today.

During one of his interviews where he spoke about alien life and UFOs, Hellyer stated:

“[…]there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying south from Russia across Europe, and Supreme Allied Command was very concerned and about ready to push the ‘Panic’ button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole.”

“They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for 3 years and they decided that, with absolute certainty, four species – at least – had been visiting our planet for thousands of years.”

Just like Edgar Mitchell, the former defense minister believes that alien beings are very interested in our weapons of mass destruction, such as the nuclear bomb. Hellyer believes that UFO activity on Earth has drastically increased ever since we first tested the “Atomic bomb.” The first nuclear device ever detonated was an implosion-type bomb at the Trinity test, conducted at New Mexico’s Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range on 16 July 1945.

Hellyer believes that the testing and use of weapons of mass destruction has caught the attention of extraterrestrial civilizations across the cosmos.

“They are very much afraid that we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again, and this would be very bad for us and for them as well.”

There are dozens of extraterrestrial races out there. Most of them are extremely advanced technologically.

The former defense minister believes that there are many species that inhabit the cosmos:“There are about 80 different species and some of them look just like us and they could walk down the street and you wouldn’t know if you walked past one. They are what we call ‘Nordic blondes’ and also the Tall Whites who were actually working with the US Air Force in Nevada.”

“Then there’s the Short Greys as they are called, and they are the ones you see in most of the cartoons, they have very-very slim arms and legs, they are very short, just a little over 5 feet, and they have a great big head and great big brown eyes.”

Each species is, according to Hellyer, unique having its own agenda. Some of them look like us, while other species are totally different. Each one of them thinks differently.

But Hellyer also believes that the majority of extraterrestrial species that has visited Earth are benign and that these species are here to help us develop as a civilization.

“I would say that nearly all are benign and benevolent and they do want to help us, there may be one or two species which do not. That’s one of the things I’m investigating at the moment, to see who they are, what they are up to and what their agendas really are.”

UFO sightings have doubled since we have started testing and using nuclear weapons.

We cannot forget that our inferior technology is something to think about when approaching aliens. If these beings have the ability of interstellar travel, huge spaceships that defy known physics, then they certainly must have extremely advanced weaponry. We should exercise caution when dealing with aliens. But just how cautious do we have to be? Is an “Alien invasion” upon us?

“I think it’s a possibility,” says Hellyer. “But it’s a possibility especially if we shoot down every UFO that comes into our airspace without asking who they are and what they want. Right from the beginning we started scrambling planes, trying to shoot them down, but their technology was superior enough that we weren’t able to get away with it, certainly not for a long while.”

“During that period of time they could have taken us over without any trouble if they wanted to, so I think, rather than developing our own Star Wars to protect ourselves against them, we should work with the benign species that are of a vast majority and work together, and rely largely on them, of course, and cooperate, so that we would be contributing something at the same time; I don’t think there’s any point in us developing a galactic force that would tempt us to ride on our own and get into mischief, which is one of the things that some of them are concerned about.”

Hellyer believes that different Alien species are interacting between them, and even though most of them have their own interest, they share a similar goal.

“they may be interacting between themselves – I suspect that they are because there is what is called a ‘Federation’ of these people and they have rules. For example, one of the rules is that they don’t interfere with our affairs unless they are invited to – and that’s one of the reasons, probably, that we haven’t seem more of them until very recently…”

According to Hellyer, Extraterrestrial beings are very concerned about the future of mankind:

“They don’t want to tell us how to run our affairs, they have accepted the fact that this is our planet, and that we have the right to run it, but they are very concerned: they don’t think we are good stewards of our planet, we’re clear cutting our forests, we’re polluting our rivers and our lakes, and we’re dumping sewage in the oceans, and we’re doing all sorts of things which are not what good stewards of their homes should be doing.”

But we have been given a chance, a chance to do better, a chance to learn from our mistakes and a chance to take care of our planet which is very unique. Hellyer added:

“The Cosmos is based on free choice. We’re given the option of making mistakes, of making wrong choices, and I guess, what bothers some of us, is that we’ve made too many wrong choices, and not enough right choices.”

“So we’re going to have to start switching our priorities and stop spending so much time and effort on weapons to kill each other, or to dominate each other, and spend a lot more time on how to help each other to have a better life and a more just society, and life which is healthier.”

“Our future as a species, and here I mean all of the species in the world, is potentially at risk if we don’t figure what’s going on and work together and try to make life more amenable for all of us, and to work with our neighbors from other planets as well.”

Ufo Germany That With Beam of Light pulls down a Tir

In the video that we will see, an incredible ray of light from the sky, hitting a truck and turns it upside down, all this at night.

Really amazing what happens in this German motorway, in a night shot of the surveillance cameras, there is suddenly a hole opened in the sky, a light beam diameter huge falls in the street. Everything has been documented and reported by the German television that provides this service. There are no scientific explanations for an event of this kind that has been classified as a sighting of something extraterrestrial, be it an unidentified flying object (UFO), a weapon or any other material from unknown origin. The power supplied by the light beam is so powerful and fast that it was almost imposbile for drivers Tir able to notice it in time to be able to avoid, it is fractions of a second.

Wikileaks : Confirm Existence Of Extraterrestrial Life

This year alone we’ve seen a tremendous step forward regarding UFO disclosure. In early May, researchers, activists, political leaders and high ranking military/agency personnel from around the world testified to the reality of the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon in front of several former United States members of congress. To watch an interview with the former 2008 presidential candidate and ex-congressman Mike Gravel (who participated in the hearings).

Not only has the world heard from all of these credible people, its also been privy to official documentation released by dozens of governments worldwide that outline the reality of the UFO phenomenon. Documents indicate that UFOs are of concern to governments, and they put a significant amount of time, effort and resources into studying them.

It’s now a fact that UFOs are tracked on radar, performing maneuvers that defy our idea of physics. Jets are constantly scrambled to take a closer look at them. This is no longer a conspiracy theory, it’s a fact. Release of files began early in 2007 with the UK, among others. Since then they’ve released thousands of pages every year, with the latest ones published.

Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. – Former CIA Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960.

The UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon is extremely top secret, access to this type of documentation and the deeper truth behind it is almost impossible. CIA directors, presidents and other high ranking officials barely have any access to these programs. That being said, all of the information that’s already out in the public domain is overwhelming. It makes you wonder how far down the rabbit hole this topic goes.

As most of the world today already knows, Wikileaks is an international, online, non-profit organization that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified material from anonymous sources. They’ve been a tremendous threat to the controlling elite for a number of years, and have gained the attention of major mainstream media outlets worldwide. For the most part, these mainstream media outlets have bashed Assange, pointing to the idea that the release of classified documents is a threat to national security. That’s not true, it’s more like a threat to the truth that the elite try to cover up on a daily basis that would threaten their ability to control the human race.

Since a large amount of official documentation has already been released, documents from the Wikileaks cables shouldn’t come as a big surprise. Assange has already mentioned that there are yet to be published cables that make reference to UFOs.

On January 13 Ambassador called on Dushanbe Mayor and Chairman of the upper house of Parliament Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev at his parliamentary office. The Mayor began the meeting with a lengthy discourse on Afghanistan, thanking the United States for its contributions and sacrifices there, and saying that U.S. activities there were very important “as we enter the third millennium and the 21st century.” Ubaidulloev thought the main task there was to build a sense of national identity among ethnically disparate groups, and said the United States was an example for this. He noted that “war is very dangerous”, and said “we know there is life on other planets, but we must make peace here first.

In a platitude-ridden meeting, Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev said upcoming elections would be free and fair, that contributions to the Roghun Dam were voluntary, and that the losses suffered by the United States in Afghanistan were felt by Tajiks as their own. Ubaidulloev asked for help in getting Tajik students admitted to Harvard University, but effectively declined to help find a new location for an American Corner in Dushanbe. He asserted the existence of life on other planets, caveating this by noting that we should focus on solving our problems on Earth.

It’s not surprising that that the U.S. ambassador in Canada was concerned with this group. High level agencies are also concerned with abductees and ET contactees. Their mail is stamped in a special way, they are constantly surveyed by army intelligence, phone tapping and are also confronted by ‘men in black’ (intelligence officers). Agencies that are active in the UFO phenomenon keep close tabs on UFO/extraterrestrial activity outside of their sphere of influence. That being said, again, it’s no surprise that the U.S. ambassador had an interest in this ‘UFO cult.’ Anything extraterrestrial would be a concern to the elite, as they are the ones active in the cover up.

We are living in an extremely unique time, our world has become much more transparent than ever before. One aspect of multiple realizations is the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon, but it seems to branch into every aspect of our reality depending on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go. Our perception of life on other planets largely comes from external sources like television programming. As a result, many are filled with fear when giving thought to this subject. Hopefully as we move through the shift in consciousness the planet is currently experiencing, fear will dissipate as it will no longer serve the human race. This is undoubtedly one of the largest realizations in human history. The only thing that goes beyond it, in my opinion, is the realization of humanities infinite potential to create a new experience from a place of peace, love, co-operation and understanding.

Former Navy Officer Exposes TOP Secret Government Pact With Aliens

Willingly or not, some people get to know the dark side of the world, mostly involving Governmental agencies or secret agencies. Most of the time they are dragged along, as the idea of power and secret information as well as being part of top organizations full of “influential” people can easily steal someone’s mind and soul.

Fortunately for us, not all individuals are the same. Some seek redemption after a life of sins, others lose their minds or even commit suicide but, there is also the case when an individual is stronger than the rest and he seeks to enlighten the rest of us, divulging secret information he had access to.

In a situation such as this, they are either considered delirious or absurd or they are assassinated (sooner or later).

This particular case captured our attention because it describes a secret UFO organization and talked about relevant data concerning extraterrestrial situations along the years.

Milton William Cooper was a member of the Intelligence Briefing Team of the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet or in other words he worked for the Navy.

On July 2, 1989, in Las Vegas, Nevada, he unveiled TOP Secret information regarding the Government secret agency MJ-12 or MAJIC 12.

He stated that the source of the material was an ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) counter intelligence operation against MJ-12 in order for the Navy to find out the truth. It seems that at that point, the Navy was not pleased that they were not part of the “real action” so they decided to get involved in order to obtain some new pieces of technology designed using the exploited aliens the Government had in captivity as well as involvement into some of the secret projects.

I, Milton William Cooper, do solemnly swear that the information contained in this file is true and correct to the best of my knowledge. I swear that I saw this information in 1972 in the performance of my duties as a member of Intelligence Briefing Team of the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet as a Petty Officer in the US Navy. I swear that I underwent hypnotic regression in order to make the information as accurate as possible.

History will be the judge of me and this information and I have no fear of that judgement. I swear that this information is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

Here is the list with key words he provided, containing top secret information involving the CIA, NSA, MJ-12, Presidents of the US, alive aliens, UFOs and weapons of mass destruction:

• GRUDGE – Contains 16 volumes of documented information collected from the beginning of the United States’ investigation of UFOs and IAC – Identified Alien Crafts. The project was funded by CIA confidential funds and money from the illicit drug trade. The purpose of project GRUDGE was to collect all scientific, technological, medical and intelligent information from UFO and IAC sightings and contacts with alien life forms. This orderly file of collected information has been used to advance the United States Space Program.

• MJ-12 is a secret control group. President Eisenhower authorized a secret societyknown as The Jason Society in order to sift through all the facts, evidence. Technology. Lies and deception and find the true answer behind the alien question. The society was made up of 32 of the most prominent men in the country in 1972 and the top 12 members were designated MJ-12. MAJIC 12 has total control of everything, they are nominated by the code J-1, J-2, J-3, all the way through the members of the Jason Society.

• MJ-12 assassinated President Kennedy when he informed them that he was going to tell the public all the facts regarding the alien presence. He was killed by the Secret Service agent driving his car and it is clearly visible in the film withheld from the public view. A secret meeting was constructed for MJ-12 in Maryland and it was described as only accessible by air. It contained full living, recreational and other facilities for MJ-12 and the Jason Society. It is code named “The Country Club”

• AQUARIUS – is a project which compiled the history of alien presence and their interaction with Homosapiens upon this planet for the last 25,000 years and culminating with the Basque people who live in the mountainous country on the border of France and Spain and the Syrians.

• POUNCE – is the project formed to recover all downed or crashed craft and aliens.

• REDLIGHT – is the project to test fly recovered alien craft. It is conducted at AREA 51 in Nevada. It was jump-started when the aliens gave us craft and helped us fly them. The initial project was somehow successful in that we flew a recovered craft but it blew up in the air and the pilots were killed. The project was suspended at that time until the aliens agreed to help us.

UFO Crash Lands in Lake Winnipeg

This particular event which occurred in a desolate place from Canada during extreme-weather conditions forced the military to cover-up tracks once again.

Here is a brief description over what happened and our analysis of the event:

In Manitoba, Canada, on the Jackhead Reservation, rumors spread about a possible UFO crash landing into Lake Winnipeg.

Following this report, the Canadian military has quickly made their way to the highlighted area, blocking all access to unauthorized personnel.

During the military operation, nobody was permitted to enter or leave the reservation, while the residents of the area were visited by troops telling them that an emergency training excercise is ongoing and that they shouldn’t leave their homes until this ends.

This was a curious action because an extremely cold front was already being felt over Manitoba for a last couple of days, making time spent outdoors a dangerous activity.

The military deployed a large number of troops and equipment, effectively suppressing all view of what crashed into the lake or what they were doing there. Fortunately, some brave citizens facing the harsh weather conditions managed to take a few pictures of the gear used by the military, highlighting the importance of this “exercise” in this eventless area of Canada.

Owned by the Aboriginal people, the Jackhead Reservation is governed by their own laws which do not allow for operations such as these to take place, making the Canadian military intruders under these circumstances.

A native by the name of Dakotah Traverse stated that no major event took place here until now and that UFOs are not a rare sight around these parts either:

My people have been seeing these kind of things for years now. It’s funny that the military has entered my reserve for training – which they have never before, and this sudden and with so much troops. My reserve has never seen this much attention before, especially by the military, but neither from anyplace else. I wouldn’t even call this place a blip on the map, it’s so small.”

While people reported seeing military forces dragging a strange disc-shaped object using snowmobiles, the Canadian army officials stated that this was just one big training exercise teaching soldiers on how to deal with a plane crash in the Arctic and rescue maneuvers.

There’s no aliens, just my friends in the air force who are out there helping us on this exercise. I have the commander of that air force contingent sitting right beside me and you know, he assures us that there was not a UFO, but that was him.”

It is rather unlikely that an actual training exercise took place because they refused to give in any data about the supposed event. No evidence has been released in order to assure us this was indeed a plane crash training operation.

Whatever the case may be, we have drawn the line, speculating in favor of a UFO landing in the lake that could either have ET origins or it could be a craft designed using the latest military technology (which we believe to be extremely advanced) that crashed as a result of really bad weather.

UFOs Are Being Spotted Regularly At The Delhi Airport, Indian Air Force Put On High Alert

UFOs Are Being Spotted Regularly At The Delhi Airport, Indian Air Force Put On High Alert

Things have been getting a little weird for the security agencies working in and around Delhi, Indra Gandhi International (IGI) Airport. They have been put on red alert after 'regular spotting' of suspicious objects flying in and around the international airport.

On Friday, the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) at the Delhi airport spotted unidentified flying objects not once, but thrice in and around the airport. While it could've very well been a drone, there isn't any video, or photographic evidence to support the claim.

In fact, an Air Vistara pilot flying in from Bhubaneswar complained of being distracted by a laser beam right before he landed on IGI's runway 29 on Wednesday night. It's a scary situation considering the number of lives at risk. The pilot apparently observed a laser beam distracting him 6 nautical miles away from the runway.

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An airport official first recalls, " A member of Indian Air Force (IAF) sits at the ATC tower of Delhi airport. At 10:44 am on Friday, he first noticed a flying object over runway 9-27, the smallest runway of Delhi airport. He reported two more objects at 10:50 am and 10:55 am, flying outside the airport boundary. On Tuesday, an ATC staff had claimed of having spotted a drone-like object but could not support his claim with any evidence. This time also, we do not have any evidence. But this is alarming."

It is being said that the IAF has been authorised to shoot down any suspicious object if need be. All the security teams including the Intelligence Bureau, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Bureau for Civil Aviation Security and Delhi Police have been asked to keep a strict watch on aerial threats.

A Couple of Traits Aliens Must Have According To Science

This list starts off making the presumption that Alien is equivalent to those who might come a vistin’, rather than life that we might discover through our own exploration of the Universe. Several of their ideas are misguided or just wrong, and we will tell you why.

Aggression

What separates humans from other species on the planet in terms of evolution comes down to a simple principle: aggression. For any species to thrive within a given habitat it has to confront adversity and overcome it. These struggles drive evolutionary adaptation. The dominant life form on a planet (which aliens would almost certainly have to be) must have been able to master their environment.

A paper published by the University of Missouri suggests this means they would be aggressive—they would populate and conquer their surroundings in order to progress. If they are more intelligent than we are, they will likely see us as a resource, the way we view farm animals and their habitats.

This is just wrong. Humans did not survive due to aggressiveness. There are plenty of animals more aggressive, and better adapted to aggressive behavior than we are. What sets us apart is our ability to cooperate with each other, to overcome aggression by recognizing the common good, and this is, in some regards the opposite of aggression. An alien species would need to have learned to cooperate to travel to the stars. That is the true trait that should be listed here.

Explorers

Any life form that reaches Earth will, by definition, be an explorer. Looking to our own culture for clues, we immediately see how unexplored territories are targeted for their resources. We wonder what lands might possess that can help further our causes. Look at Columbus and the Americas, Marco Polo and the East Indies, the Vikings and most of Europe.

According to Stephen Hawking, aliens are likely to seek out other planets in order to colonize them or mine them for resources. Aliens may not come to destroy our planet, but they will in all likelihood seek to exploit what they find to increase their race’s reach, as again this is the hallmark of a developed species.

Hardly even worth mentioning as it could be taken as a given. Though I cannot agree with Hawking in the idea that an alien race would need to find other planets for resources. Even we are looking at our own asteroid belt or mining comets for resources. They are there, in plenty, and in purer form than on a volcanic planet that tends to stir things up. It would take tens of thousands of years, probably more, to use up the resources of one solar system. If they have mined their entire system, unless we are the next nearer system they have nothing to gain by coming here.

Viral and Bacterial Immunity

It’s a common trope in Science Fiction that aliens, having never encountered Earth bacteria before, will succumb to simple diseases which they have no immunity to. Just look at the pilgrims and conquistadors, and the havoc smallpox and typhus wreaked on unexposed native populations. But conquistadors and Aztecs were both human. According to Seth Shostak, senior engineer from SETI, bacteria are limited to the life forms they are biochemically related to.

Our germs have evolved to survive on our unique DNA. Even viruses and bacterial infections that infect one species on our planet will only rarely spread to another. Dogs don’t routinely get the ‘flu, for example. Any alien life form that invaded earth will likely be immune to earthly diseases, so don’t expect a War of the Worlds solution.

Bacteria and viruses also adapt, some quite quickly to survive on new sources of energy. This is one of the reasons the HIV virus is so difficult to treat, and one of the reasons why bacteria are used in evolution research. We simply do not have information about alien life to make this statement with any degree of certainty.

They Won’t Eat Humans

What if they want to feed on us? While a scary thought, it’s unlikely. A race advanced enough to achieve space travel surely will have conquered its need to prey on living animals. The journey to earth from any potentially life-supporting planet is incredibly long, and for any species to attempt it they would have to have sustainable food production methods already in place.

Further, the digestive setup of a creature that evolved in a different sector of the universe is not very likely to be compatible with the kinds of proteins found on our planet. It would be inconceivable that the minimal nourishment resources found on our planet would ever justify the energy spent to obtain it. An alien race would already be adept at harnessing energy by that point. So we won’t be cattle.

Well, while this idea has many of the same problems that resource mining has, let’s look at it for what it is, simply for the sake of argument. It is very likely that there will be life we do not understand in the Universe. There will also very likely be life we can readily comprehend, and if they were to come here looking for a bunch of Human Happy Meals, then eating us in the flesh need not be necessary to satisfy that craving.

IF Aliens are skipping around the Galaxy looking for something to nosh, then they will have the capacity to render the life forms they find into something digestible and palatable. If they can’t then there is no purpose to be served. At the very least, if they have a similar biochemistry, then we can be rendered down for our component organic compounds.

Impersonal Killers

How many people have ever moved into a new home and found a colony of bugs as an extremely unwelcome surprise? How many of those people then squished each and every offender by hand, swinging the shoe of death over and over again until the job was done? No, most people would call an exterminator to gas the home and lay down poisons for the survivors.

Aliens, like any advanced species, will make use of technology to their advantage. They will probably eradicate the life forms on a planet they are considering for their own uses before landing. Forget skies filled with single-pilot saucers firing laser beams at the Capitol Building. Expect a quick and efficient, probably biological, end to our existence.

This is really just a restatement of the Aggression and Resources arguments, and with as little sense as either.

We simple Humans recognize tool use in animals as otherwise unsophisticated as birds, and lower primates. I think a species capable of traversing the vast distances of the Galaxy will not do so on a whim, very likely recognizing our EM emissions long before arriving here and so be aware that an intelligent species exists on this planet. Certainly more than an infestation of bugs. We may be far less advanced than they are, but they will have passed through similar levels of technology as we currently have and will easily recognize us as a technological race rather than bugs to be squashed.

Not Giant Insects

While it’s scary as crap to picture aliens as giant forms of the animals that give us the creeps on Earth, it isn’t scientifically plausible. This concept is born more out of a fear of losing our dominance on this planet combined with an evolved disgust response to disease-carriers.

In reality, the body structure of an insect only functions on a small scale. As they do not have oxygenated blood, they cannot take in enough oxygen from our atmosphere to grow larger than they do. In prehistoric times, when the atmosphere was much more oxygen rich, they did grow to distressing sizes, but we’re talking around a meter long. The image of roach-like creatures towering over us is pure fantasy. Sorry Heinlein.

Probably very true.

Super Science

This is a given. However, in a ton of movies, alien races are depicted as feudal, territorial beings that destroy everything in their paths. This doesn’t make sense. In order to organize the kind of effort needed to achieve interstellar travel, a highly advanced intelligence will need to be present. While the species may be, as noted before, aggressive towards other life forms they encounter and even their own race, the chances of them being intergalactic warlords are considerably low.

It is more likely that they will be calculating, controlled beings making precise decisions—more like playing chess than dodge ball. Species based in aggression with lower intelligence tend to focus their energies towards one another and survival. For a race of beings to advance beyond the levels we have seen in our own civilization would suggest the need to lay individual differences aside in favor of mutual interests. The skills necessary for long-distance travel and exploration coincide with the key signs of intelligence in nature. Memory, self-awareness, cognition of motives, and creativity must be present before a considerable level of scientific proficiency could ever be achieved.

Doesn’t this contradict several of the previous statements? If this list is, as ListVerse calls it the 10 Traits Aliens Must Have, how can one of them be outright contradictory to the others?

Non-Humanoid

It happens in countless TV shows and movies. Aliens appear on screen that resemble normal humans in face paint (I’m looking at you Darth Maul and every Star Trek character ever). This is convenient from a prop standpoint but not very likely at all in the realm of science. Humans developed as the result of specific environmental conditions.

We stood erect to cover greater distances and free our hands to manipulate tools. We formed thumbs as a response to our early tree-dwelling lives. But if a planet doesn’t have trees, it is going to be unusual to develop an appendage adept at manipulating them. There’s no way to tell exactly what an alien species will look like but most likely they will be fast, enabling their early survival and the ability to hunt for prey. They will have very well-developed sensory organs. One would expect (but cannot guarantee) rudimentary traits present in most earth-based life forms: mouths, eyes, a form of hearing and an efficient form of locomotion, such as legs. They must have been predators and will likely possess vestigial traits to indicate this.

Well, we just don’t know now do we? We have no idea what they will look like, so we can neither say they will look like us, or they will not. Odds are against them being human, unless Ancient Aliens believers are correct in one of their scatter-shot ideas of how Humans came to exist, but the fact is we do not know and any claim of knowledge is as invalid as another.

Speech and Writing

For a civilization to develop it must communicate. A long-distance form of communication will have to be present in order to organize in large numbers and disseminate information, which is crucial to social development. Like humans, aliens would need the ability to communicate complex theories with one another, and record them, thereby assisting the next generation through learning. Without some form of writing, it is unlikely we would have ever passed beyond the barrier of individual generational limitations.

The type of speech employed by interstellar travellers, and how it might be recorded, is somewhat of a mystery, however. Depending on their environments, sound waves may not be the most effective approach. Perhaps they will use vibrations that are received via specialized sensory organs, or maybe they will, as Hollywood would have us believe, speak telepathically. Telepathy has yet to be proven in any other species however, so that would more likely be a secondary development or the result of technology.

Yes, and then again, no. If morphic field ideas have any credibility (which I doubt, but hey I could be wrong) then there is the possibility of a sort of communal mind, not like ants, but where individuals retain a degree of individuality and specialization, but all have access to communal knowledge. Communication, absolutely, but it is arrogance to presume a limitation on that communication of speech and writing.

No Super Strength

Aliens will not be super strong. Once reaching the level of technological proficiency required to be space explorers, the need for brute strength should be several thousand years removed from its usefulness. These creatures will be lean and efficiently designed beings, using minimal energy to power their bodies.

Energy consumption dictates survival on a large scale. Larger muscles use more energy and require more upkeep, which diverts energy away from evolutionary progress.

A scientifically advanced culture would no longer require physical strength to manipulate its surroundings, and a species that has put its evolutionary chips on complex social bonds, abstract thinking and communicating, and fine motor skills and tool manipulation, all of which are necessary to develop interstellar travel, will probably not have the resources left to devote to physical strength or speed.

This is perhaps one of the dumber ideas on the list. First of all, humans have bred beasts of burden for thousands of years, and yet have continued to evolve to larger proportions than our predecessors. We have machines which do our heavy lifting yet continue to invent other machines to aid us in developing the strength of our bodies. Physical health requires the use and development of the physical body. We know this.

And setting that aside, we have already looked at potentially habitable planets of up to four times the size of Earth. If an intelligent species from such a planet came here to visit, their weakest child might very well be far stronger than me at 6′ 4″ and 250 lbs. I may be past my prime but I have still been an athlete and an average human cannot do what I am able to do.

Finally, because the people at ListVerse are apparently not particularly able to count

Functional Appendages

Much the same as humans have thumbs and therefore can use objects to their advantage, aliens would presumably also need to possess this functionality. One simply cannot expect to build and use tools without the ability to grasp them. Giant blobs, or creatures with long unwieldy tentacles are highly unlikely.

How would we expect an advanced species of creatures to construct a spaceship and pilot such a vessel across the vast expanses of space without the ability to hold on to, and move, an object with precision? It is well within reason to expect alien life forms to have an even better developed set of appendages than the fingers and thumb system we use on earth. Much like smartphones and advanced machinery on Earth, alien species would probably adapt their technology to their bodies as much as their bodies to their technology, leaving it difficult, if not impossible, for humans to operate alien devices.

Yup, they will need fingers. How else can they flip us off for being so foolish as they fly past?

What traits, you ask, do I believe aliens will possess when we finally discover some?

Okay, you didn’t ask, but I am going to tell you anyway. As the article makes the presumption of discussing intelligent, technologically advanced aliens, I will hold to those parameters.

Human ancestors were using fire a million years ago - 300,000 years earlier than previously thought

One of the turning points in human evolution occurred 300,000 years earlier than previously believed.

Traces of ash mixed with million-year-old bones and tools have been uncovered in the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.

Burned plants and bones were found in the cave, suggesting that its inhabitants cooked and perhaps even socialised around camp fires.

Rock art in Wonderwerk cave 40km from Kuruman Northern Cape South Africa: Ash found in a layer dated at a million years old hints that inhabitants of the cave were using fire a million years ago

Skull of homo erectus, from Sangiran, Java, 3 million years old: The discovery of ash among million-year-old remains in South Africa hints that human ancestors as early as homo erectus might have used fire

The huge cave near the edge of the Kalahari Desert has been the scene of previous excavations which have uncovered an extensive record of human occupation.

A team led by the University of Toronto and Hebrew University of Jerusalem has identified the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors.

Microscopic traces of wood ash alongside animal bones and stone tools were found in a layer dated to one million years ago.

Analysis of sediment has revealed ashed plant remains and burned bone fragments, both of which appear to have been burned locally rather than carried into the cave by wind or water.

Extensive evidence of surface discolouration that is typical of burning was also found.

University of Toronto anthropologist Michael Chazan said: ‘The analysis pushes the timing for the human use of fire back by 300,000 years, suggesting that human ancestors as early as Homo erectus may have begun using fire as part of their way of life.

Wonderwerk caves in South Africa: The huge cave near the edge of the Kalahari Desert has been the scene of previous excavations which have uncovered an extensive record of human occupation

‘The control of fire would have been a major turning point in human evolution.

‘The impact of cooking food is well documented, but the impact of control over fire would have touched all elements of human society.

‘Socialising around a camp fire might actually be an essential aspect of what makes us human.’

The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today.

Amazing Photos Of Alien Craft Over Florida

I was at my brothers house in Clermont, Florida on 7-8-12 when I went out my bedroom door to the back yard. I saw some strange Objects like fire balls coming up in a line 5 or 6 of them. I don’t know what direction they where coming up in. I went back in and got my camera and started taking pictures. When I first started taking the pictures as the Objects came up in line behind each other they where very clear but has they started moving so fast as I would take the pictures they would blur and they could change directions so fast. I continued to take pictures until it was like they disappeared. I told my wife and brother and his wife to come out and see right quick and look at what I was seeing. I asked them do you know what that is and we all said I have never seen anything move and change direction at a 90 degree angle like this object did. I watched the for just a few seconds more going toward the stars and it was as they just disappeared. The next night I told my wife, my brother, and his wife the next night I was going to see if this happened again. This was 7-9-12 at 21.15 at night when the Objects came up again in line again 5 or 6 of them. Again I started taking picture again and called my brother and his wife and also my wife to see again what we where seeing. None of us could say what it was because of the way it changed directions so fast again at 90 angles. We all started kidding each other maybe is a UFO. But none of us could give a good explanation what we had seen. I took some 27 picture and have showed them to many people and they cannot tell me what they are looking at.

Pilot Reports Strange Alien Craft Over Coventry

This is a UFO case that was not widely reported by a pilot in Coventry, the date of the sighting was August 31, 2010. It is a fact that the vast majority of pilot cases (particularly professional pilots) still go unreported. This unfortunate attitude of both pilots and management causes a huge loss of credible UFO intelligence that can never be replaced.

A pilot has described a “bewildering” close encounter with a pair of low-flying UFOs in Warwickshire. The two glowing petal-shaped craft silently skimmed along at about 1,500ft – the height of a modern skyscraper – until they disappeared behind clouds. The qualified pilot, based at Coventry Airport, watched the spectacle unfold from a garden in Rugby. “I was looking at the stars when a circular object came into view from behind a cloud,” said the man, who asked to remain anonymous. “The object was very clearly visible and was neither a traditional aircraft nor a balloon. “It was circular in shape but had a structure which resembled flower petals extending outwards from the centre and the petals where very strongly illuminated and appeared to be glowing as if they were on fire. “Then overlaid at the centre of the craft was a similar array of petals contained within the radius of the wider array. “These too were very bright and similarly appeared to be on fire, with a shimmering orange glow. It was a quiet and still evening but there was absolutely no sound. “Having watched this, totally bewildered, for about 40 seconds, a second identical craft came into view on exactly the same track, heading and altitude as the first, with a separation of a mile.”

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“UFO’s? Aliens? Yes, I have always believed in them for as long as I can remember. I don’t have any idea who might have been controlling the crafts I have videotaped recently but whoever it is, it’s amazing and incredible. We live in a world that is much stranger than most people are aware of”.

This is an interesting look at the meteor thats about to hit Earth. BPEarthWatch of Youtube is talking about how WT1190F has an orbit that is sometimes with in satellite rage of Earth and as far out as 2X that of the moon. That kind of orbit should be impossible for something this light. Yes I said light since NASA dis say its long, metallic and hollow. Space junk can not orbit the earth that far out and come back on its own. Its impossible. All astronomers know this. So...what power source is it using and is it man made or alien made? If its man made, it could be a nuclear missile gone awry from some country. A missile that was meant to be launched from Earths orbit to attack other countries. No one would expect that kind of attack. I hope I'm wrong about that. Lets hope impact on Friday the 13th goes well for the area its over. I would hate to see a nuclear explosion occur. Scott C. Waringwww.ufosightingsdaily.com

Jellyfish UFO Seen Over Oklahoma On July 8, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Jellyfish UFO Seen Over Oklahoma On July 8, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 8, 2015, posted on Oct 22, 2015Location of sighting: Ponca City, Oklahoma, USASource: MUFON #68054This particular type of UFO is called a jellyfish craft. Jellyfish UFOs have a rounded top, with many extended arms hanging below it. I only wish the video was longer to help determine how it moves. Scott C. Waringwww.ufosightingsdaily.comEyewitness states:It was in the middle of town and very cloudy when I saw a girl in the Hastings parking lot looking at the sky with binoculars and I saw it easily, I pulled out my iPhone and took pictures and a short video, it was better seen with the naked eye, it finally faded into the clouds although it didn't appear to move, several people outside the university center were looking at it too, I checked the local paper and no mention of anything, it was dark grey and stood out from all the other clouds, I have no idea what it was a strange single cloud, a weather ballon, a spaceship? it was shaped almost like cloud city on Star Wars...would love to hear someone else witnessed it or if anyone can identify this unusual object never seen anything like this.

Date of sighting: October 28, 2015Location of sighting: Melbourne, AustraliaThis UFO was reported by well known UFO reporter JMHZ71 of Youtube. This orange UFO was recently seen over Melbourne this week and didn't seem to come with a eyewitness description. The UFO looks a lot like an old case from South America back in the 1970s, so yes, this glowing orange UFO is known to exit in UFO records. The species that flies these orange UFOs look very similar to ourselves, so would be impossible to notice them if they were in a crowd. Scott C. Waringwww.ufosightingsdaily.com

Evidence of Flowing Water On Mars Enough To Support Tiny Aliens

UFO enthusiast and hunter Scott Waring claimed to have discovered water on Mars. He said that he found evidence of running water in one of the photos from NASA’s Curiosity Rover on the red planet. In a picture that Waring specifically pointed out, a darkened trail of running water below the rocks in the hills lining the Gale Crater can be seen against the light colored sand.

NASA scientists have reported evidence of dark streaks that could be the evidence of intermittent water flows, but they still have to find actual sources of flowing water on Mars. NASA also discovered the existence of hydrated minerals in the Hale Crater region just recently.

In a statement issued last September 28, NASA scientists said that they discovered hydrated salts when seasonal features were the widest. With this finding, they concluded that the source of the hydration is either the dark streaks or the process that forms them.

Waring suspected that NASA planned to keep the discovery of flowing water on Mars a secret. The agency is also attempting to cover up the finding, but UFO hunters made the hiding and covering up attempts impossible, added Waring.

By looking at the photo with apparent marks of flowing water, Waring believes Mars has enough amount of water to sustain a race of tiny aliens, which he thinks responsible for the making of statues, walls, and other structures on the Red Planet that other UFO hunters discovered.

United States: Butterfly UFO Caught On Camera In Great Detail

A father and son reportedly photographed and recorded a video of a strange-shaped black craft that had many lights on its underside. The two were just leaving a restaurant near Ohio-Kentucky border in the USA at around 7 p.m. local time on Saturday.

Named as Tom and Christopher, the pair allegedly said that two military helicopters followed the UFO in the same direction five minutes later.

The video, which was taken by father Tom, shows the craft gliding past slowly, but as it nearing the horizon, two small flashes of light appeared away from it and on the two sides.The photographs visibly show the aerodynamic shape as well as the lights on the underside.

But the video, posted in YouTube channel Secureteam10, has some UFO researchers believing that it was made with computer generated imagery (CGI). The channel has been previously accused fo sharing clips featuring CGI technology.

However, the owner of the channel Tyler Glockner has denied ever doing such thing deliberately. He claimed to be an honest alien researcher.

Glockner said that he called the butterfly sighting an alien craft rather than just a UFO because of the stunning detail of the structural characteristics of this aircraft. He’s very sure that this is an alien ship.

The father allegedly said they saw two military helicopters heading towards the same path as the alien craft about five minutes after while driving home in their vehicle. However, the two could not take any picture of the helicopters as they were too fast and they were driving the opposite way.

According to Glockner, the father and son both described the alien craft as eerily silent. It has glowing lights, chambers, windows, and other characteristics that do not jive with anything on Earth.

Many viewers of the video are convinced it must be an alien ship. However, others say it’s an RC glider or some other man-made flying things. There are commenters who believe it’s a CGI because of the movement of the camera that is similar to the wiggle effect in Adobe after effects.

Mathematicians state that “self-replicating” Alien probes operate in our solar system

Mathematicians state that “self-replicating” Alien probes operate in our solar system

A new statement from two mathematicians from the University of Edinburgh suggest that “Alien probes” might operate in our Solar System.

All of a sudden, the (in)famous Black Knight Satellite might be a reality? One that is supported by science.

According to scientists from the University of Edinburgh there are possibilities that “self-replicating” robotic alien spacecraft are venturing into our solar system. If this turned out to be true, these probes would be product of such highly advanced technology to our understanding, that these probes would literally appear invisible to human perception, researchers said.

The mathematicians used computing power to inform their predictions, which might not sound out of place in a sci-fi novel.

The two mathematicians analysed the possibility that probes could travel through space in a study published in the Journal of Astrobiology.

In their work, Duncan Forgan and Arwen Nicholson affirm the possibility that highly advanced alien races are taking advantage of the gravitational field of the stars to speed up “their” spacecraft travelling through space. Interestingly, this “technique” would not be something exclusive to highly advanced alien beings: in fact, we use this technology for our own spacecraft. For example, the voyager probes are making use of the gravitational field of the planets to gain speed through space.

The voyager spacecraft traveling through space

According to a mathematical analysis, a fleet of alien probes, with highly advanced technology could self-replicate constructing new realities for themselves, making use of cosmic dust and gas, dividing into parent and child probes which would set off to explore a different star, in their goal to look for signs of life and so on in their never-ending journey through the universe.

This technology is so advanced that these “alien” probes could explore any galaxy in a relatively short time. The researcher made by Duncan Forgan and Arwen Nicholson coincides with a study made by Jacob Haqq-Misra in 2011, where it is suggested that extraterrestrial objects could exist right now in our solar system without our knowledge. These objects are so advanced technologically speaking that we couldn’t even identify them even if we wanted.

The scientists said: ‘We can conclude that a fleet of self-replicating probes can indeed explore the Galaxy in a sufficiently short time…orders of magnitude less than the age of the Earth.’

NASA RECEIVES RADIO SIGNALS FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH?

NASA has received radio signals from the center of the earth. These signals are being picked up by tracking satellites. NASA has decoded them but won't reveal the contents. The source of this information leak states that, "They obviously know more about us than we do about them. For one thing, they have found a way to communicate with us on a regular basis, but we have little or no inkling on how to communicate with them in return."

Humans will be cyborgs within 200 years, expert predicts

“It will be the greatest evolution in biology since the appearance of life.”

Within the next 200 years, humans will have become so merged with technology that we’ll have evolved into “God-like cyborgs”, according to Yuval Noah Harari, an historian and author from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.

Harari researches the history of the human species, and after writing a new book on our past, he now believes that we’re just a few short centuries away from being able to use technology to avoid death altogether – if we can afford it, that is.“

I think it is likely in the next 200 years or so Homo sapiens will upgrade themselves into some idea of a divine being, either through biological manipulation or genetic engineering of by the creation of cyborgs: part organic, part non-organic,” Harari said during his presentation the Hay Festival in the UK, as Sarah Knapton reports for the Telegraph. “It will be the greatest evolution in biology since the appearance of life … we will be as different from today’s humans as chimps are now from us.”

Obviously, we should take Harari’s predictions with a grain of salt, but while they sound more suited to science fiction than real life, they’re not actually that out-there. Many researchers believe that we’ve already started down the path towards a cyborg future; after all, many of us already rely on bionic ears and eyes, insulin pump technology and prosthetics to help us survive. And with researchers recently learning how to send people’s thoughts across the web, subconsciously control bionic limbs and use liquid metal to heal severed nerves, it’s not hard to imagine how we could continue to use technology to supplement our vulnerable human bodies further.

Interestingly, Harare’s comments came just a few days after UK-based neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow from Cambridge University got the Internet excited by saying that it could be possible to upload our brains into computers, if we could build computers with 100 trillion circuit connections. “People could probably live inside a machine. Potentially, I think it is definitely a possibility,” Critchlow said during her presentation at the festival.

But Harari warned that these upgrades may only be available to the wealthiest members of society, and that could cause a growing biological divide between rich and poor – especially if some of us can afford to pay for the privilege of living forever while the rest of the species dies out.

If that sounds depressing, the alternative is a future where instead of us taking advantage of technology, technology takes advantage of us, and artificial intelligence poses a threat to our survival, as Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates have all predicted.

Either way, one thing seems pretty clear – our future as a species is now inextricably linked with the technology we’ve created. For better or for worse.

Scientist at deathbed makes shocking confessions about aliens

A recording has been released of the late US scientists Boyd Bushman who worked at a secret base of the United States Air Force. At that secret base, alien technology was developed and adapted for human use. According to Boyd, numerous alien bodies were studied at the facility as well. In the video, recorded shortly before his death, the Lockheed-Martin scientist shows images of alien bodies which according to him, were taken with disposable cameras at Area 51, a secret base of the Air Force in the state of Nevada.

Even though some of the details in the Biography of Bushman may seem controversial, according to British tabloid “Metro”, Bushman was an important researcher in aerospace corporation Lockheed Martin and had several highly classified patents.”As for the extraterrestrial crafts, we have United States citizens who work 24 hours a day studying UFO’s and Alien technology. We are trying to understand what we need to do.”Bushman confessions which were recorded on video are dotted with images of beings with humanoid bodies. According to the researcher, two groups of alien beings are being studied at Area 51, but there are also aliens who work in cooperation with humans.

Area 51 is an area of land located in Nevada owned by the United States government. It is popular for the fact that there, for years, numerous scientists have claimed to have been developing and testing new technologies based on alien tech, and secret military aircrafts. It is commonly known as Area 51, although the official name is Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) designation: Area 51.

According to Bushman, the alien technology is very advanced, these beings can travel at speeds much faster than light, and most of them come from planets that are located around 68 light years away from planet Earth. Bushman states that the aliens working at Area 51 are around 1.5 meters tall, they have fingers and toes just like humans but can live much longer than humans. These extraterrestrial beings are able to communicate via telepathy.

According to Bushman, scientists from Russia, China and the United States are working together at Area 51, their main research is anti-gravity technology.

Recently, Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator, confirmed the existence of infamous Area 51, but said that it does not harbor any kind of alien life or alien technology. “There’s an Area 51. But not devoted to what many people think. It’s a normal place of research and development. I never saw aliens or spaceships in it.

Does FBI memo prove aliens did crash near Roswell and were covered up?

Does FBI memo prove aliens did crash near Roswell and were covered up?

Does FBI memo prove aliens did crash near Roswell and were covered up?

UFO researchers in Japan stumbled across an FBI memo that some believe could prove the infamous Roswell flying saucer incident DID happen – and involved THREE flying saucers instead of just the suspected one.

An FBI memo that has come under scrutiny following freedom of information requests even suggests each “saucer” contained three bodies of three-foot tall aliens in the legendary “alien” incident.

The Roswell incident, in July 1947, went down in UFO folklore after the US Air Force announced it had found the remains of what was suspected of being a crashed flying saucer in the New Mexico desert near the town.

The next day it retracted the statement amid claims it was later identified as a weather balloon.

UFO chasers have forever since believed it was a major cover-up and that the US military actually discovered the craft and the bodies of alien pilots.

The FBI memo now in the spotlight, dated from 1950 – three years after the Roswell incident – said each of three “saucers” contained three bodies of three-foot tall humanoid occupants, making nine aliens in total.

Museum workers stumbled across the document as as they were preparing to open the Hakui Centre for UFO Research in the coastal city of Hakui, 310 miles west of Tokyo, Japan, back in 1994.

But it has only come to light again after subsequent documents released under the US Freedom of Information Act suggested the FBI was so concerned about the museum opening, it opened up its own file on the proposals.

The original 1950 memo suggested the US military found three metallic, saucer-shaped objects, complete with occupants, near New Mexico, in the USA.

The memo revealed US radar equipment in the area was believed to “have interfered with the saucers and brought them down”, according to the Journal Telegraph.

It said: “An investigator for the Air Forces states that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico.

“They were described as being circular in shape with raised centres, approximately 50 feet in diameter.

“Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three-feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture.”

The memo was sent by Federal special agent Guy Hottel, who was in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office, on March 22, 1950, to then FBI Director J Edgar Hoover.

The theory of parallel universes is not just maths – it is science that can be tested

The theory of parallel universes is not just maths – it is science that can be tested

The theory of parallel universes is not just maths – it is science that can be tested

The existence of parallel universes may seem like something cooked up by science fiction writers, with little relevance to modern theoretical physics. But the idea that we live in a “multiverse” made up of an infinite number of parallel universes has long been considered a scientific possibility – although it is still a matter of vigorous debate among physicists. The race is now on to find a way to test the theory, including searching the sky for signs of collisions with other universes.

It is important to keep in mind that the multiverse view is not actually a theory, it is rather a consequence of our current understanding of theoretical physics. This distinction is crucial. We have not waved our hands and said: “Let there be a multiverse”. Instead the idea that the universe is perhaps one of infinitely many is derived from current theories like quantum mechanics and string theory.

The many-worlds interpretation

You may have heard the thought experiment of Schrödinger’s cat, a spooky animal who lives in a closed box. The act of opening the box allows us to follow one of the possible future histories of our cat, including one in which it is both dead and alive. The reason this seems so impossible is simply because our human intuition is not familiar with it.

But it is entirely possible according to the strange rules of quantum mechanics. The reason that this can happen is that the space of possibilities in quantum mechanics is huge. Mathematically, a quantum mechanical state is a sum (or superposition) of all possible states. In the case of the Schrödinger’s cat, the cat is the superposition of “dead” and “alive” states.

But how do we interpret this to make any practical sense at all? One popular way is to think of all these possibilities as book-keeping devices so that the only “objectively true” cat state is the one we observe. However, one can just as well choose to accept that all these possibilities are true, and that they exist in different universes of a multiverse.

The string landscape

String theory is one of our most, if not the most promising avenue to be able to unify quantum mechanics and gravity. This is notoriously hard because gravitational force is so difficult to describe on small scales like those of atoms and subatomic particles – which is the science of quantum mechanics. But string theory, which states that all fundamental particles are made up of one-dimensional strings, can describe all known forces of nature at once: gravity, electromagnetism and the nuclear forces.

However, for string theory to work mathematically, it requires at least ten physical dimensions. Since we can only observe four dimensions: height, width, depth (all spatial) and time (temporal), the extra dimensions of string theory must therefore be hidden somehow if it is to be correct. To be able to use the theory to explain the physical phenomena we see, these extra dimensions have to be “compactified” by being curled up in such a way that they are too small to be seen. Perhaps for each point in our large four dimensions, there exists six extra indistinguishable directions?

A problem, or some would say, a feature, of string theory is that there are many ways of doing this compactification –10500 possibilities is one number usually touted about. Each of these compactifications will result in a universe with different physical laws – such as different masses of electrons and different constants of gravity. However there are also vigorous objections to the methodology of compactification, so the issue is not quite settled.

But given this, the obvious question is: which of these landscape of possibilities do we live in? String theory itself does not provide a mechanism to predict that, which makes it useless as we can’t test it. But fortunately, an idea from our study of early universe cosmology has turned this bug into a feature.

The early universe

During the very early universe, just after the Big Bang, the universe underwent a period of accelerated expansion called inflation. Inflation was invoked originally to explain why the current observational universe is almost uniform in temperature. However, the theory also predicted a spectrum of temperature fluctuations around this equilibrium which was later confirmed by several spacecraft such as Cosmic Background Explorer, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and the PLANCK spacecraft.

While the exact details of the theory are still being hotly debated, inflation is widely accepted by physicists. However, a consequence of this theory is that there must be other parts of the universe that are still accelerating. However, due to the quantum fluctuations of space-time, some parts of the universe never actually reach the end state of inflation. This means that the universe is, at least according to our current understanding, eternally inflating. Some parts can therefore end up becoming other universes, which could become other universes etc. This mechanism generates a infinite number of universes.

By combining this scenario with string theory, there is a possibility that each of these universes possesses a different compactification of the extra dimensions and hence has different physical laws.

Testing the theory

The universes predicted by string theory and inflation live in the same physical space (unlike the many universes of quantum mechanics which live in a mathematical space), they can overlap or collide. Indeed, they inevitably must collide, leaving possible signatures in the cosmic sky which we can try to search for.

The exact details of the signatures depends intimately on the models – ranging from cold or hot spots in the cosmic microwave background to anomalous voids in the distribution of galaxies. Nevertheless, since collisions with other universes must occur in a particular direction, a general expectation is that any signatures will break the uniformity of our observable universe.

These signatures are actively being pursued by scientists. Some are looking for it directly through imprints in the cosmic microwave background, the afterglow of the Big Bang. However, no such signatures are yet to be seen. Others are looking for indirect support such as gravitational waves, which are ripples in space-time as massive objects pass through. Such waves could directly prove the existence of inflation, which ultimately strengthens the support for the multiverse theory.

Whether we will ever be able to prove their existence is hard to predict. But given the massive implications of such a finding it should definitely be worth the search.

Composite of images taken at the Kimberley formation. (A) shows a view looking south. The strata in the foreground dip towards the base of Mount Sharp, indicating the ancient depression that existed before the larger bulk of the mountain formed. (B) is a view to the west of the same sandstone formations. (C) is a close-up view of the area boxed in (A), and shows the coarse grain structure of the sandstone. (D) is a close view of grains in the rocks north of the area indicated as "Rock" in (A). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Wet paleoclimate of Mars revealed by ancient lakes at Gale Crater

We have heard the Mars exploration mantra for more than a decade: follow the water. In a new paper published October 9, 2015, in the journal Science, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team presents recent results of its quest to not just follow the water but to understand where it came from, and how long it lasted on the surface of Mars so long ago.

The story that has unfolded is a wet one: Mars appears to have had a more massive atmosphere billions of years ago than it does today, with an active hydrosphere capable of storing water in long-lived lakes. The MSL team has concluded that this water helped to fill Gale Crater, the MSL rover Curiosity’s landing site, with sediment deposited as layers that formed the foundation for the mountain found in the middle of the crater today.

Curiosity has been exploring Gale Crater, which is estimated to be between 3.8 billion and 3.6 billion years old, since August 2012. In mid-September 2014, the rover reached the foothills of Aeolis Mons, a three-mile-high layered mountain nicknamed “Mount Sharp” in honor of the late Caltech geologist Robert Sharp. Curiosity has been exploring the base of the mountain since then.

“Observations from the rover suggest that a series of long-lived streams and lakes existed at some point between 3.8 billion to 3.3 billion years ago, delivering sediment that slowly built up the lower layers of Mount Sharp,” says Ashwin Vasavada (PhD ’98), MSL project scientist. “However, this series of long-lived lakes is not predicted by existing models of the ancient climate of Mars, which struggle to get temperatures above freezing,” he says.

This mismatch between the predictions of Mars’s ancient climate that arise from models developed by paleoclimatologists and indications of the planet’s watery past, as interpreted by geologists, bears similarities to a century-old scientific conundrum–in this case, about Earth’s ancient past.

At the time, geologists first began to recognize that the shapes of the continents matched each other, almost like scattered puzzle pieces, explains John Grotzinger, Caltech’s Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology, chair of the Division of Planetary and Geological Sciences, and lead author of the paper. “Aside from the shapes of the continents, geologists had paleontological evidence that fossil plants and animals in Africa and South America were closely related, as well as unique volcanic rocks suggestive of a common spatial origin. The problem was that the broad community of earth scientists could not come up with a physical mechanism to explain how the continents could plow their way through Earth’s mantle and drift apart. It seemed impossible. The missing component was plate tectonics,” he says. “In a possibly similar way, we are missing something important about Mars.”

As Curiosity has trekked across Gale Crater, it has stopped to examine numerous areas of interest. All targets are imaged, and soil samples have been scooped from some; the rocks in a select few places have been drilled for samples. These samples are deposited into the rover’s onboard laboratories. Using data from these instruments, as well as visual imaging from the onboard cameras and spectroscopic analyses, MSL scientists have pieced together an increasingly coherent and compelling story about the evolution of this region of Mars.

Before Curiosity landed on Mars, scientists proposed that Gale Crater had filled with layers of sediments. Some hypotheses were “dry,” implying that the sediments accumulated from wind-blown dust and sand, whereas others focused on the possibility that sediment layers were deposited in ancient streams and lakes. The latest results from Curiosity indicate that these wetter scenarios were correct for the lower portions of Mount Sharp. Based on the new analysis, the filling of at least the bottom layers of the mountain occurred mostly by ancient rivers and lakes.

“During the traverse of Gale, we have noticed patterns in the geology where we saw evidence of ancient fast-moving streams with coarser gravel as well as places where streams appear to have emptied out into bodies of standing water,” Vasavada says. “The prediction was that we should start seeing water-deposited, fine-grained rocks closer to Mount Sharp. Now that we’ve arrived, we’re seeing finely laminated mudstones in abundance.” These silty layers in the strata are interpreted as ancient lake deposits.

“These finely laminated mudstones are very similar to those we see on Earth,” says Woody Fischer, professor of geobiology at Caltech and coauthor of the paper. “The scale of lamination–which occurs both at millimeter and centimeter scale–represents the settling of plumes of fine sediment through a standing body of water. This is exactly what we see in rocks that represent ancient lakes on Earth. “The mudstone indicates the presence of bodies of standing water in the form of lakes that remained for long periods of time, possibly repeatedly expanding and contracting during hundreds to millions of years. These lakes deposited the sediment that eventually formed the lower portion of the mountain.

“Paradoxically, where there is a mountain today there was once a basin, and it was sometimes filled with water,” says Grotzinger. “Curiosity has measured about 75 meters of sedimentary fill, but based on mapping data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and images from Curiosity’s cameras, it appears that the water-transported sedimentary deposition could have extended at least 150-200 meters above the crater floor, and this equates to a duration of millions of years in which lakes could have been intermittently present within the Gale Crater basin” Grotzinger says. Furthermore, the total thickness of sedimentary deposits in Gale Crater that indicate interaction with water could extend higher still–up to perhaps 800 meters above the crater floor, and possibly representing tens of millions of years.

But layers deposited above that level do not require water as an agent of deposition or alteration. “Above 800 meters, Mount Sharp shows no evidence of hydrated strata, and that is the bulk of what forms Mount Sharp. We see another 4,000 meters of nothing but dry strata,” Grotzinger says. He suggests that perhaps this segment of the crater’s history may have been dominated by eolian, or wind-driven, deposition, as was once imagined for the lower part explored by Curiosity. This occurred after the wet period that built up the base of the mountain.

A lingering question surrounds the original source of the water that carried sediment into the crater. For flowing water to have existed on the surface, Mars must have had a thicker atmosphere and warmer climate than has been theorized for the time frame bookending the intense geological activity in Gale Crater. Evidence for this ancient, wetter climate exists in the rock record. However, current models of this paleoclimate–factoring in estimates of the early atmosphere’s mass, composition, and the amount of energy it received from the sun–come up, quite literally, dry. Those models indicate that the atmosphere of Mars could not have sustained large quantities of liquid water.

Yet the rock record discovered at Gale Crater suggests a different scenario. “Whether it was snowfall or rain, you have geologic evidence for that moisture accumulating in the highlands of the Gale Crater rim,” Grotzinger says. In the case of Gale Crater, at least some of the water was supplied by the highlands that form the crater rim, but groundwater discharge–a standard explanation to reconcile wet geologic observations with dry paleoclimatic predictions–is unlikely in this area. “Right on the other side of Gale’s northern rim are the Northern Plains. Some have made the argument that there was a northern ocean sitting out there, and that’s one way to get the moisture that you need to match what we are seeing in the rocks.” Pinpointing the possible location of an ocean, however, does not help to explain how that water managed to exist as a liquid for extended periods of time on the surface.

As climatologists try to develop new atmospheric models, help should be coming from the continuing explorations by Curiosity. “There are still many kilometers of Mars history to explore,” says Fischer. He thinks that some of the most exciting data yet may come in the next few years as Curiosity climbs higher on Mount Sharp. “The strata will reveal Gale’s early history, its story. We know there are rocks that were deposited underwater, in the lake. What is the chemistry of these rocks? That lake represented an interface between the water and the atmosphere, and should tell us important things about the environment of the time.”

“We have tended to think of Mars as being simple,” adds Grotzinger. “We once thought of the earth as being simple, too. But the more you look into it, questions come up because you’re beginning to fathom the real complexity of what we see on Mars. This is a good time to go back to reevaluate all our assumptions. Something is missing somewhere.”

Filer’s Files #44 – 2015 President Carter Saw UFOs - PART I

In special reports, this week’s files cover: President Carter Saw UFO, President Carter Tells Shirley Maclaine about UFOs, Father of the Space Age claims UFOs are Real, Structures on the Moon, Have You Had a Close Encounter? UFOs Ships of God Bible Symbolism, Pyramids Asteroid Deflectors, Chariot of Fire in 2 Kings 2:11, April 1561 – A War In Heaven. Taurid Meteor Shower, and Ancient Origins of Halloween.

The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation. The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.

George A. Filer III

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Special Reports

President Carter Saw UFO

The 39th President of the U.S. Carter said, [Carter’s report stated “10 members of the Leary, Ga., Lions Club”], ‘There were about 20 of us standing outside of I believe, a high school lunchroom, and a kind of green light appeared in the western sky. This was right after sundown. It got brighter and brighter, and then eventually it disappeared. It didn’t have any solid substance to it; it was just a very peculiar looking light. None of us could understand what it was…”

Sheaffer gave the source as from the documentary recording “Factual Eyewitness Testimony of UFO Encounters” (Chicago: Investigative Research Associates, Inc. 1978)”

Attorney Dan Sheehan, who worked for President Jimmy Carter, claimed Carter had seen a UFO while in the Navy. The Carter sighting while running for governor in Georgia was apparently is second sighting.

President Carter Tells Shirley Maclaine about UFOs

According to a Larry King Show a few years ago, Actress Shirley Maclaine revealed that President Carter told her about UFO crashes and alien bodies. The transcript of this exchange started with a caller from Cocoa, Florida.

Larry King: “Cocoa Florida with Shirley Maclaine, hello”

Caller: hello, good evening Larry and Shirley

King: Hi.

Caller: About two weeks ago, Nicholas Cage was on the Letterman Show and said Shirley had told him that President Carter had told her he had seen recovered alien spacecraft and aliens in a hanger. Can you tell me exactly what President Carter said?

Maclaine: “He didn’t tell me that but he told me many times that when I first wrote “” that he would support me, that it was true, that there were crafts, that he believed there were occupants, why should we be the only people in the universe. He wanted to shine the sunshine laws on intelligence, to expose it, to see how the people would react, but he didn’t and wouldn’t and couldn’t as he explained to me.” Note: “Out On a Limb” discusses the evidence for UFOs

King: back with our remaining moments with Shirley Maclaine right after this. (Larry King Show, May 1995)

Shirley Maclaine wrote, “I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.”

Father of the Space Age claims UFOs are Real

Hermann Oberth, considered by some to be one of the fathers of the space age, who developed rockets for Germany and later worked in the US with Wernher von Braun, theArmy Ballistic Missile Agency and NASA, stated the following in1954: [3]

“It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system.” Perhaps of more interest to our present discussion on propulsion, he then stated that: “They are flying by the means of artificial fields of gravity…; they produce high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their paths, so it does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to influence the ionized air at higher altitudes. First, this would explain their luminosity… Secondly, it would explain thenoiselessness of UFO flight…” We now know that he was fundamentally correct in his assessment.

Structures on the Moon

I have had the pleasure of talking to John Brandenburg, PhD who is a plasma physicist. He did his graduate work in California at Lawrence Livermore National Lab in controlled plasmas for fusion power, and has worked in defense, energy, and space research.

Dr. Brandenburg was also part of the Navy Clementine Mission to the Moon which discovered water at the Moon’s poles. He feels a mile long structure on the moon represents alien structure. The Clementine Mission was sent to determine if the extraterrestrials had continued expanding or building additional lunar bases. These are not geological structures. Appear tp be turbine generators, towers, bridge, and mining.

Have You Had A Close Encounter?

Dr. Roger Lear and Mr. Derrel Sims, in a meeting in Thousand Oaks, California demonstrated revolutionary findings about markings on the skin of people who feel they have been abducted.

Example of black light markings

These markings were not visible to the naked eye, but were discovered incidentally while standing under a ‘black light.’ What appeared was fluorescent markings on the facial area, hands, arms, stomach — and also elsewhere. The colors were greenish, and not able to be either washed or scrubbed off. The markings were sub-derminal and can last from one hour up to ten days, as far as research till now have proven. Mr. Sims could not explain how these markings were made. Abductees, all upon having marks, have through hypnotic sessions explained they have undergone examination on board alien craft. The only time variation occurred in the color was among some female abductees that claimed to have been on board the craft, holding and nurturing hybrid babies. These women had red fluorescent marks, on their palms, necks and face, where one would expect close contact holding a baby.

Keep a black light lamp at home, if you suspect that you are among the abductee group. Memories are most often erase upon awakening the next morning after a nocturnal meeting. Sometimes only a vague flash will remind you of what has occurred during the night. If you want to check it out, keep a black light at home, the kind that often is used at Halloween giving off a bluish light. Check out your arms and face in the morning. The ones we saw, were random, non-figurative marks to markings that were figurative. One doctor had found an illuminating mark that looked as if it were ‘stamped’ on his upper arm. Some types of makeup may leave marks but this is usually where the makeup has been applied If you find such marks, please notify us immediately and we will attempt to check into your case… Thanks to Pleiades

Pyramids Asteroid Deflectors

Bill Sells writes, I believe the pyramids were asteroid deflectors as they were originally covered in polished limestone. I believe large ruby stones were placed at the top of each for the generation of a lens to focus the lazer beams in tri-angulated firing to deflect incoming asteroids.

Edgar Casey stated this same theory while in trance years ago. You just have to nudge the asteroid a degree for deflection from Earth’s path and that is what was done. A shame they are still not operational today. But maybe our scientists will learn from the distant past how to protect this planet. We need to build a similar system in same area to cover the whole planetary areas. I believe we can duplicate this power source again. Thanks to Bill Sells.

Chariot of Fire in Bible 2 Kings 2:11

And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces. And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him. And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send. And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not. And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not? 2 Kings 2:11 to 2KI 2:18 Note: Was this an abduction, using a vehicle and the beam of light, of a major person of the Bible 900 years B.C. 2,900 years ago.

Taurid Meteor Shower

The Taurid meteor shower is upon us. This annual event, which spans several weeks from early October through late November, results when Earth passes through two streams of debris from the periodic Comet Encke. Because they often result in bright slow moving meteors, and because of their timing, they’re sometimes called the Halloween Fireballs.

Even the most casual stargazers have noticed a congregation of bright “stars” in the eastern sky before sunrise. Three of these “stars” are of course planets, the planets Mars, Jupiter, and Venus. If you missed the splendid conjunction of these planets this morning, you can get a glimpse of them here.

Finally– an accurate, exciting, and relatively upbeat sci-fi/astronomy/space movie. Based on a self-published book by Andy Weir, The Martian is a fine survival tale that’s actually quite entertaining, and it avoids the grimness of Gravity and Interstellar. Even the New Yorker liked this movie. If you’re wondering whether to see it, you can read the review here. Brian Ventrudo Publisher, CosmicPursuits.com

April 1561 – A War In Heaven?

One of the most astounding of documented sightings of aerial phenomena took place in 1561 over Nuremberg, Germany. What was described could only be called a war in the heavens, with a wide variety of craft ranging from spheres to spear-like cylinders to crosses. The sky was apparently filled with the machines, clashing in battle.

Comets and such were well identified and charted in this period, so it is highly unlikely that what the people witnessed was merely a celestial phenomenon like a ‘meteor shower’, as some debunkers suggest. Rather, what is described are physical objects of unique detail and shapes, in ‘battle’ for over an hour. The battle was such that a winner was perceived as well. Spheroid UFOs were seen emerging from cylindrical ‘motherships’. At the conclusion of the battle, it seems a magnificent, black, spear-like super-ship of some kind came upon the scene…

It began at dawn, as dozens, if not hundreds, of crosses, globes and tubes fought each other above the city. It ended an hour later, when “the globes in the small and large rods flew into the sun,” and several of the other objects crashed to earth and vanished in a thick cloud of smoke.

According to the Nuremberg Gazette, the “dreadful apparition” filled the morning sky with “cylindrical shapes from which emerged black, red, orange and blue-white spheres that darted about.” Between the spheres, there were “crosses with the color of blood.” This “frightful spectacle” was witnessed by “numerous men and women.” Afterwards, a “black, spear-like object” appeared. The author of the Gazette warned that “the God-fearing will by no means discard these signs, but will take it to heart as a warnings. Thanks to Nuremberg Gazette. k

Note: The description indicates Cylinder shaped Mothership launching sphere shaped craft like this photo taken over Japan and a triangle shaped UFO.

Ancient Origins of Halloween

Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, ghost like lights were often reported in the sky.

Some of their key red and blonde haired gods were the Tuatha De Danann, also known as… The Dragon Lords of Anu … the name means literally “the folk of the god whose mother is Dana.” because they were said to be the offspring of the fallen angels (Anunnaki). They allegedly landed out of the heavens in a dark dense cloud on Iron Mountain. They were the alien gods, the ancient spacemen, and a group of blond, fair-skinned, and handsome beings, who ruled the Earth in prehistoric times. Their superior intelligence, artistic skills, and magical powers, which were based on highly advanced technology, laid the foundation of Druids.

The intriguing question is – what was the Watchers’ connection with the people of Ireland, Britain, and Gaul (mainland Europe)? What kind of secret, ancient wisdom, were the Druids trying to conceal and from whom did they gain their magical powers?

To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other’s fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.

By 43 A.D., the Roman Empire had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of “bobbing” for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.

On May 13, 609 A.D., Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheon in Rome in honor of all Christian martyrs, and the Catholic feast of All Martyrs Day was established. Pope Gregory III (731–741) later expanded the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs, and moved the observance from May 13 to November 1. By the 9th century the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with and supplanted the older Celtic rites. In 1000 A.D., the church would make November 2 All Souls’ Day, a day to honor the dead. It is widely believed today that the church was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. All Souls Day was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels and devils. The All Saints Day celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints’ Day) and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.

In Ireland and Scotland, people began to make their own versions of Jack’s lanterns by carving scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away Stingy Jack and other wandering evil spirits. http://www.history.com

Filer’s Files #44 – 2015 President Carter Saw UFO - PART II

Sightings of UFOs in the United States

Arizona Orb

Black Canyon City — My wife and I were filming our motorcycle ride with a GoPro when we were stopped in traffic for a very long time due to a rollover accident on October 24, 2015.

As we sat there, the camera captured all kinds of activity neither of us saw at the time.

It was not until I began editing the video that I saw what incredibly. happened.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Lights

Hollywood– I was walking down Vermont Street approaching Fountain, by the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospitable. As I neared the intersection, a man dressed in green hospital scrubs ran up flailing for my attention on February 2, 2014.

He asked me, “Have you ever seen a UFO before? Well TURN AROUND RIGHT NOW!” He ran off to tell others.Turning around, I was awestruck and saw flying in the sky was a large, luminescent disc-shaped object. It was a shiny metal color with an alternating pattern of chrome and grey on its undercarriage with a pulsating red light underneath. It was a huge disc-shaped object that was flying at high altitude moving southeast extremely fast. It was without a doubt a UFO. I managed to take a few photos, before it disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Colorado Lights

Fort Collins — During a smoke break, I was trying out the video camera slow motion on October 23, 2015. I decided to film the rain mist falling down from the sky and when I went back to look at the slow motion video, there was an object in it. I did not see anything with the naked eye.

I would have written it off as a fluke, but the rain falls in front of it, and smoke drifts in front of it as well. In addition, I took two slow motion videos in succession and the second video does not contain the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Lights

Naperville — Just after 4:30 am, i looked out our sliding door at two very bright lights just hovering in the sky on October 25, 2015. I was convinced this was not natural. It is 4:51 PM, and they are still there, not moving. We have been living in this residence for three years. We have never seen these lights before today. It has been quite unsettling to watch these very strange lights. I can only hope that others have seen these lights and can find a good explanation. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Indiana Cylinder

Harlan –– We were out on the pool deck enjoying the evening when I noticed something up in the night sky that struck me as unusual on September 28, 2015. It was very bright and color changing rapidly through most of the rainbow spectrum.It was obviously not a plane; I quickly got out my 5″ reflector telescope and called my wife and four kids out to witness the event. We all had time to capture a video of the object with an I-phone camera through the telescope. Shape of the object is quite saucer like typical of many observations by others. Kids called over their friends for a look at it through the telescope, nine total witnesses on the event. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Kentucky Lights

Burkesville – I was at home watching TV and getting ready to go to bed. First noticed it when I went to check what I had on game camera. I usually leave camera out for 1 week before I check to see what animals I got on film. When I first saw the photo, I said to myself that is a ufo! Didn’t see it in person. Only on film. Sent picture to local MUFON investigators. Thanks to MUFON CMS’

Minnesota Black Arrowhead

Rochester — On September 21 2015. I had an incredible sighting at 2 pm, while heading west down a hill and saw a huge black arrowhead shaped craft. My brother saw it at the same moment. It was larger than a commercial jet, hovering and not making any noise. It was so easy to see if you looked up. After looking at it for about 10 seconds trees started to obstruct my view. By the time I got back in the clear, it was gone. The craft was flat black and did not reflect the sun. From my angle to it, I saw the back left side. At first, I thought it was a triangle shape, but it was slightly angled so I could see the back was cut out. I suppose you could say it was boomerang, but it was much thicker and more arrowhead-like. It was stationary and a clear sighting that I am still in awe. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ worldUFOphotos

New Jersey Orbs

Flemington — a very good friend of the family took this picture on October 8, 2015. He is not into UFOs as I am, but he felt he should bring it to me. He thought he was taking a picture of a sunrise and saw three very bright lights shining through the clouds and thought it was the sun trying to poke through. There were three bright lights with beams coming down from them. It was not until he took a second picture that the three lights were in a triangular.These lights are shining through the clouds. My brother and I are both UFO fanatics and always looking up. My brother has many pictures of UFOs and one of a USO sitting on top of the Ocean. A beam was shining out of the sky right on top of the USO and five helicopters in the far background. Thanks to Denise

New York Cylinder

Coney Island — The first sighting of a strange series of lights, up to 180 meters across, was said to have resembled the back of the fictional Rebel Alliance craft while in flight on October 15, 2015. Four people on Coney Island saw it. Roger Marsh, of Openminds.tv, said, “A New York street photographer driving to Coney Island reported capturing a disc-shaped object while taking ‘rapid fire images’ of a bridge. “The witness was with three friends on their way to pick up another friend.” The photographer, who has not been named, said, “I always carry my camera with me. At the time, I shot with a Fujifilm XT1 and had it on machine gun mode for rapid shots.

“We were passing by the bridge as I decided to just rapid fire some shots of the bridge free hand and I did not have my eye sight in my view finder.”What caught my attention was a sudden string flash at the corner of my eye, kind of like lightening but in the distance. At that moment I took my finger off the shutter and reviewed my photos from the rapid fire when I came across the object.” The witness does not believe the object was visible for very long. He added, “The object moved at such speed that I only had it in the frames for about maybe a second or two. It’s also moved from the front of the bridge to out of the frame in that small amount of time.” MUFON New York State section director Lillian Waters and field investigator John Reinhart investigated the case, filing a report stating: “Although not visible to the naked eye, one picture revealed a disc-like object with a dome shaped top. “The object was very large – possibly 300 feet in diameter – and appeared to have bright yellow-orange external lights.”Thanks to MUFON CMS

North Carolina Light

Charlotte –– I took a picture of moon and then realized an additional object was in the image on October 16, 2015. Thanks to MUFON CMS

South Carolina Light

Hartsville — My brother-in-law has a hunting area not far from our home on October 16, 2015. He has cameras posted in the hunting area to see if any deer come by the feed pile, so he can hunt them. He always goes out every other day to retrieve the disc from the camera to check the footage and see what, if anything has tripped the camera. A color laser motion activated camera captured strange lights on the disc. He asked me to look and I told him that they looked like “Orbs” from Hanger 1, MUFON TV programs. Since these images were taken, no animals (Deer, Turkeys, Squirrel, Crows, and Raccoons) have ever returned to the feed pile. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Pacific Ocean UFO

Seattle – flying from Maui, Hawaii leaving at night going to Seattle, my daughter in the window seat saw it first at dawn on July 19, 2015. She saw a smoke trail with a red light then the light went out. She first took a picture and then took video.

When the object turns, there are no wings and my husband said it is probably a missile. It is hard to know when we are in an airplane, but most likely over the Pacific Ocean. We were going 500 mph at 6 to 6.5 miles up in the air. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Texas Lights

Brownsville – I was going to work with my brother saw two bright lights in sky proceeded to follow once we were about to get there lights disappear and appeared half mile away fast for any aircraft proceeded to see two other crafts triangle in shape spear to hover amazing event aunt worked for airlines 20 years uncle is an Air Force pilot I work for and airline I know it wasn’t a plane or a drone or a helicopter … crazy event changed my life. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington Red Lights

Spokane — Moses L. reports, “We saw three red dots going north on October 17, 2015, in a triangle formation slightly going out of formation for a few seconds and then they disappeared.

Update Oct 20, 2015: David Mason has analyzed the video and writes: “After reviewing the video and observing the relative speed when referenced to a land structural object, the three objects are likely one of the Yaogan satellite groups launched by the Chinese government for reconnaissance and research purposes. There are also satellite groups positioned in triangular formation intended for interferometry measurement applications launched by the USA as well as satellite groups not disclosed to the public. They can appear to be red in color if the atmosphere has enough pollution/particle content. The violet/blue/green wavelengths are attenuated thus giving the predominant red color. This is similar to the effect of seeing a red moon or sun at the horizon. But usually these satellites will have a light or near white color, that resembles that of more common singular satellites. The triangular formations will appear to change position slightly as they pass by the field of view due to the reference point of observation. They can be startling when observed for the first time.” Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com

Worldwide UFO Reports

Australia Lights

Mackay – An orb appeared after photo was taken of the moon on April 15, 2015.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Sydney — After closing my telescope observatory, I looked skyward to see an object on September 22, 2015, that looked aluminum-like. It was fluttering and moving very quickly from my west. Then after 30 to 40 seconds, I ran inside to grab my Canon 400d camera with 300mm zoom lens. After watching it ascend and descend, move left, right with no turning circle at all, just direct turns of up to 180 degrees at times.

It slowed down at which time I took four images before it ascended into a cloud. After watching this area of sky for 1.30 hours with no further sighting, I went inside to check the images and I thought ‘wow.’ The photos are attached. Zoom in to see object. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Brazil Orb

Campinas —I was taking a picture of the sun behind the cloud and after I shared the photo on Facebook, I noted the object on it. It is not a lens flare and looks like some kind of UFO spacecraft with a cloaking device to be semitransparent or similar to the clouds.It was very strange hovering white orb with five lights or dots on it.

Ufo sightings are normal these days A bit impressed. The clouds covered the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada UFO

Fort McMurray Alberta — I am an electrician and I was going out for a cigarette at exactly 9.07 PM, with my iPhone in hand on October 17, 2015. I always look up just to check out stars and northern lights. As I was staring almost straight up the object broke the edge of the roofline above my head and proceeded above cloud cover in a northerly direction. It made five course corrections at speeds far beyond anything I have ever seen. I live near a Canadian AFB and see many fighters. The object then vanished in 1.5 seconds.

It was comparable to at least 20 times the speed of a commercial jet. The speed and handling that was quite frankly awe inspiring. This object was under intelligent command and scared me half to death. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Thanks to MUFON CMS

France Orbs

Island of Oleron –Three of us were walking in the dark between the trees and watching the stars we saw three UFO-like stars that danced on August 21, 2014. He followed and suddenly changed direction as any known device, two others appeared as a second group, and some of the first group are gone violently off quickly and disappeared.

You could see there were no clouds. The second group stayed a few seconds and then he too disappeared as if he followed the others.We were impressed and we are quickly back to sleep. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Ireland Triangle

Dublin — Michael Roberts says, “I want to report a ufo sighting over Balbriggan County at 6 AM on September 18, 2015. A very bright triangular shaped craft passed over my apartment and hovered over the sea for about a half an hour. Two passenger jets had passed by this object. The one jet was higher up in the air than the object and the other one was lower than the object probably because it must have just taken off from Dublin Air Port. I’m not sure if the pilots of the planes saw the object but the object was very bright and could be seen from far off.” Sighting report via UFOINFO

Mexico Orb

I was outside visiting with neighbors enjoying a beautiful clear night with the moon shining brightly on October 18, 2015. I looked up and saw a reddish object moving to the left of the moon. First thought a drone, but it made no sounds and was late at night. The object appeared to move in a straight line from right to left with no change in altitude.

At times, it appeared to change intensity and size of the light. We all felt the object was some kind of an UFO. Some believed it was a flame others a drone or helicopter, yet there was total silence. The object slowly drifted out of sight behind. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Norway Triangle

Asker— On October 10, 2015, On Saturday October 10, 2015 I had an experience that I cannot explain. I was a passenger in a car and on my way home; I suddenly became aware of a very bright cigar formed object on the sky. Right behind the object a smaller object of the same shape occurred. It was so big, but with no wings and suddenly it disappeared. I was looking around in the sky trying to find it, but the sky was empty. Five seconds later, it suddenly appeared again in the sky, but this time in a new shape and much, much closer to my car. It was V-shaped and upside down if you understand. It was very huge, white, and bright but no lights. It was V shaped and squared like boxes. So I had a 3D sight of a flat thing in the sky that had mass. Behind the biog V, it was a smaller V hanging. My friend who was driving the car did not see it and it suddenly disappeared! The big, thing was just gone. Thanks to William Puckett, Director UFOsnw

Portugal Light

Funchal — I am not the one who saw the object, so I will just report. She was at home, on the porch on October 22, 2015, and she was watching the lightning storm. She first saw the object when filming the storm. She thought it was lightning.

The object was like a disc, very white bright and fast. It went up and down in the middle of the storm moving very fast. She felt very scared because this was the first time that she saw the object.

She didn’t lose sight of the object, and she just goes inside of the house. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Russia Lights

Moscow — On October 21, 2015, these glowing orbs have been seen around the world this month. They have been seen over Florida, Ohio, New Jersey and now Moscow.

Something that low would endanger landing passenger jets at Moscow airport. So, look up, they could be over your neighborhood soon.Scott C. Waringufosightingsdaily

Editor’s Note: Jupiter, Venus and Mars create a cosmic triangle in the morning sky this week and could easily be mistaken for UFOs in a clear sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Turkey Lights

Istanbul – On October 27, 2015, we were at the bus trying to sleep when I saw two stars like things. One was the brightest thing that I have ever seen.

The other one was on top of it, and it was so bright that it woke me up. I told my friends and took a couple of pictures.

Their iPhones are better than mine but their iPhones couldn’t take a photo of it. We watched for 40 minutes than it slowly lost its brightness and then disappeared by the way many planes passed while we were observing. Thanks to MUFON CMS’

UK/England Light

Lincolnshire – I was just going for a walk along the beach and thought the clouds looked beautiful on October 21, 2015

I took some photos, as I’m a keen amateur photographer. In particular the sun reflecting off the clouds looked beautiful, so I took 2 shots, one close up and one further out. When I got home, I went through the pictures and came across the orb. I played around with the filters, checked that it wasn’t dust and reviewed the other photos. It was the only one with the orb. When I increase the definition, it clearly looks like an orb in the sky, just stationary. I performed lots of checks as mentioned, dust, reflections etc but none of the other photos had it and they were all taken at the same time. No idea what it was but very pleased I caught it!

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Four expeditions, a hunch, and meticulous satellite tracking work have led to the discovery of an Inca sanctuary in the mountains of Vilcabamba in Peru, 150 kilometers above the northeastern city of Cusco.

Some of the skeletal remains discovered at the site

[Credit: Rafa Gutierrez/El País]

The team of Spanish scientists and researchers led by the writer and explorer Miguel Gutiérrez Garitano have just returned to Vitoria, still shocked about the “importance” of their finding, which includes at least 55 sites in the “highest mountain in the area, in a place where they could only be found by satellite imaging.

” Gutiérrez Garitano can barely hold back his surprise and joy: “The ruins, unknown to science until now and discovered through an investigation that included remote sensing techniques, may be from the Inca kingdom of Vilcabamba. The evidence we have collected may show proof of the existence of the ritual Capacocha, or human sacrifices, in the high mountain area, which – according to experts – would be a revolutionary discovery. Moreover, very luckily, we also found an Inca cemetery with dozens of tombs inside caves,” the explorer said.

Ruins from the ceremonial Inca site and registered for the first time by the Mars Gaming Expedition

[Credit: Rafa Gutierrez/El País]

Computer hardware company Mars Gaming was one of the sponsors of the fieldwork, which took place in mid-September. “We climbed up the mountain, up to the summit, and we covered the most important areas that we had identified via remote sensing technology [They found 30-50 locations]; the results exceeded our expectations. We were able to photograph various rectangular sites that seem like buildings that were probably used for worship or associated with it (like inns or dwellings set aside as lodging for those participating in rituals), besides Inca roads, stairs and altar steps, outfitted caves, huacas [carved stone artifacts], usnus [platforms] and a number of tombs at the foot of the mountain,” Gutiérrez Garitano said. The archaeologist Iñigo Orue says “the entire mountain is organized like a huge site whose potential we cannot know before more archaeological exploration.”

Experts say that the Inca carried out important rituals on this mountain, one of the main holy sites during the Neo-Inca kingdom in Vilcabamba, though it may have been built before. These ceremonies may have included human sacrifices, or Capacocha. “Usually this type of ritual — where they mainly sacrificed virginal maidens but not necessarily only those – was performed to prevent famines or natural disasters, during some specific festivals or after the death of the Inca, for example,” the explorer continued.

“We have found evidence indicating that the ritual of Capacocha may have been performed on this mountain. We have documented two building structures near the summit identical to those that emerged from the volcano Llullaillaco and that were supposedly used to prepare the children before the last ritual of the sacrifice. There is a stone platform nearby where those children may be buried.” The team hopes to return to Peru in the summer of 2016 to expand on what it has learned.

This is the Best Explanation yet for that 'Alien Megastructure' 1,400 Light-Years Away

This is the Best Explanation yet for that 'Alien Megastructure' 1,400 Light-Years Away

A mysterious star more than 1,400 light-years from Earth has absolutely baffled astrophysicists. It's so different than anything we've ever observed, researchers can't completely discount that it's sign of an alien civilization.The star, called KIC 8462852, is so distant the only information we have about it comes from its light curves — the amount of light from the star that makes it back to Earth. Astrophysicists have noticed bizarre blobs about the star blocking out some of its light. The blobs don't appear to be planets since they follow a random pattern rather than an expected, planet-like orbit.

A giant swarm of comets or a broken-up planet might reason the odd phenomenon, but no particularly convincing astrophysical explanations have arose. That's why some consider the weird blobs might be a Dyson sphere — a massive group of solar panels orbiting a star to gather its energy — therefore implying that we may be observing a technological "megastructure" built by aliens.As Penn State astrophysicist Kimberly Cartier told Business Insider, though, the media reporting has "gotten a bit out of hand." Tech Insider has spotted what we think is the best clarification yet for KIC 8462852, and it doesn't include aliens at all.Jim Galasyn, a writer for the blog Desdemona Despair, saw a 2013 study paper posted by commenter "Michael" on a story from Centauri Dreams. That paper clarifies how some stars don't have a constant brightness level as they're unevenly shaped and "oblate" discs.

As the scientists write in that study:When a star is oblate, it has a bigger radius at its equator than it does at its poles. As a consequence, the poles have a higher surface gravity, and thus higher temperature and brightness. Thus, the poles are "gravity brightened", and the equator "gravity darkened."The star turns out to be oblate (and hence gravity darkening occurs) because the centrifugal force resulting from rotation creates additional outward pressure on the star.This generates patches of darker and lighter areas within these kinds of stars, so the light curves that make it back to Earth won't look totally uniform. What's more, planets frequently orbit "obliquely" from Earth's perspective and do not pass directly in front of a star.So those mainly weird light curves from KIC 8462852 could easily be produced by planets passing in front of darker and lighter areas — not alien artifacts floating around it. In the image from the research paper below, the red sphere signifies an oblate star, and the smaller circles demonstrate the path that a planet might take around the star. As the planet crosses into darker and lighter patches of the star, it creates the abnormal light curves that you can see below:

Barnes et al/The Astrophysical Journal

For comparison, here is a light curve from KIC 8462852:

T.S. Boyajian et al./arXiv.org

Light strength (left) and days of observation (bottom) show how KIC 8462852's light changes over time.Our overlay of both graphics (below), stimulated by one of Galasyn's illustrations, isn't scientific. Though, it shows how an oblate star and planets orbiting it would better explain the light curves:

This appears like a more probable explanation than aliens, but just in case it's off, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, an organization that searches for signs of life outside Earth, is still carefully examining the star. Scientists there have been pointing the ground-based Allen Telescope Array in California at the bizarre star for the past several days. SETI scientist Doug Vakoch told Business Insider that we should know if it's aliens within the next week or so.

Article Originally Published on: Tech Insider[Edited for Text and Content]Author: Kelly Dickerso

If UFO’s and Extraterrestrials do not exist, why is there so much interest from the FBI, CIA and other agencies in the subject?

If UFO’s and Extraterrestrials do not exist, why is there so much interest from the FBI, CIA and other agencies in the subject?

“If you extrapolate on the planets they discovered, there are a trillion planets in the galaxy. That’s a lot of places for life,” Shostak said, as quoted by ABC. “We know that the majority of stars have planets,” but what “fraction of stars has planets that are more like the earth? It might be one in five.”

“The chances of finding it I think are good and if that happens it will happen in the next 20 years depending on the financing,” he added in written testimony, according to BuzzFeed.” (source)

Let’s say that UFO’s and Aliens are just a modern-day forgery and that the hundreds of thousands of images around the world are nothing more than elaborated hoaxes. The question that we need to ask is why is there then so much interest from governmental agencies regarding the subject?

Why create “Project Blue Book” If there is no such things as aliens and UFOS… why bother investigating in the first place?

The Project began in 1947 after a series of UFO sightings that shocked media and people across America. One of those cases that caught the attention of the government was when pilot Kenneth Arnold observed nine unidentified flying objects moving at high speeds through the skies over Washington’s Mount Rainier; a scenario that has not been explained and people today still wonder what happened.

Project Blue Book investigated 12,618 UFO sightings over a period of two decades. Huge amounts of data were collected, researched and analyzed, and even though we can get access to the data, some ufologists believe that the truth has been hidden even though secret documentation has been declassified.

As a result, from 1947 to 1969, a total of 12, 618 sightings were reported to Project BLUE BOOK, where 90 percent of those sightings were attributed to explainable phenomena, caused by known astronomical phenomena, atmospheric or artificial (man-made) phenomenon, but out of the 12,618 sightings, 701 remain “Unidentified” meaning that there was insufficient information to assign or attribute the event to a known cause.

In 2011 after some documents were “declassified” a report written by a special agent of the FBI in 1947 reached the public. The special agent of the FBI, a lieutenant colonel whose identity, remained anonymous because of “national security” gather numerous data on the UFO phenomena after interviewing and studying the phenomena for years.

Again, if there are no such things as aliens and the Flying saucers millions of people have seen around the world are nothing more but elaborate hoaxes, why bother investigating? Spending money on a subject that is proven to be a hoax? Surely there has to be something more to it.

Just tent days before being killed, former President of the United States John F. Kennedy asked the CIA for classified documents about UFO’s, according to the Freedom of Information Act.

We are talking about two letters written by the former President of the United States. One of the letters was sent to the director of the CIA while the other one was sent to NASA. In the letters, former President John F. Kennedy asked for the establishment of a “Space cooperation” with the Soviet Union. These letter surfaced thanks to the work of writer William Lester, as he was gathering information for a book about the life of John F. Kennedy.

ON THIS DAY: In 1938, Martians Invaded The U.S.A.

Actually, a radio broadcast got a bit out of hand

Picture: Wikimedia Commons

Nigel Watson, author of UFOs of the First World War, writes, 'Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre of the Air caused a sensation when they broadcast their version of the War of the Worlds on Halloween’s Eve, 30 October, 1938. Their radio show presented the story as an on-going news broadcast. They told listeners that spaceships were landing in New Jersey and that Martians were coming to get them. After studying the panic psychologist Hadley Cantril thought that 1.2 million listeners had been frightened or excited by the broadcast. The reaction was so intense that a stunned and unshaven Orson Welles apologised before news reel cameras the following day.

'Although the show had been presented as fiction, many listeners apparently accepted it as fact. It has been noted that the worrying political frictions in Europe, that were leading up to World War II, had made them more responsive to stories of attack.

'People were also more likely to believe what they heard on the radio, however outlandish, if presented as news. The public had been accustomed to seeing and reading about spaceships and future weapons through the likes of Flash Gordon, so an attack from Mars only indicated that the foreseen ‘future’ had arrived.

'Cantril’s classic study of 1945 has been used to show that the public would panic if extraterrestrials ever made a mass landing or provided unequivocal proof of their existence. In the 1980s sociologists looked again at this panic and found that few listeners did more than feel worried about the broadcast.

'The masses did not run into the streets in blind panic, or hide in their basements in the manner suggested of a panic. Instead, it is suggested that this was really a product of mass delusion fuelled by the media and confirmed by Cantril.

'Since Welles was the supreme showman one wonders if he helped inflame the idea of a mass panic and that his apology the next day was just an act. Intriguingly, the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (W.D. Richter, 1984), plays with the idea that this alien invasion really did happen in 1938 and that we were all implanted with false memories to make us believe it was all a hoax.

Incredible discovery as Spacecraft finds organic compounds on Comet

According to scientists, the Rosetta spacecraft has found organic compounds that demonstrate how life came to Earth on a comet.The Philae module that landed on comet 67P has registered data that reinforce the theory that these celestial bodies are in fact cosmic laboratories that assemble essential elements for life.

After its successful and historical landing on comet 67p in november 2014, the Philae module was able to collect samples of organic compounds according to a report of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

The July 20, 2015 photo released by the European Space Agency ESA on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 shows an image of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with its coma taken by the Navcam camera of the Rosetta orbiter from a distance of 171km (106 miles) from the comet center. (AP Photo/ESA/Rosetta/Navcam)

‘It seems that comets are pretty good places to find the building blocks of molecules which later on could be used for life.’ – Mark McCaughrean, European Space Agency

The recorded data supports the theoretical assumption that comets could be true cosmic laboratories, assembling the necessary elements for life as we know it.

Surprisingly, just 25 minutes after landing on the comet, the Philae spectrometer aboard the module had registered the presence of 13 organic compounds, some of them with nitrogen, which are believed to be precursors of life, since these are involved in the formation of essential amino acids, or nucleobases.

“Comets are loaded with all the raw materials like water, CO2, methane, ammonia, needed to assemble more complex organic molecules, perhaps sparked by UV-photons from the Sun or cosmic rays, or in the shock that occurs when a comet hits the surface of a planet like the young Earth,” said Mark McCaughrean, a senior scientific adviser at the European Space Agency.

In the article published in the journal Science, scientists admitted that it is still not known whether these complex modules, found on the comet were formed in the early solar system or later on.

Still this discovery comes as a surprise to many which believed that the necessary elements for life could not be found in a harsh environment such as the surface of a comet.

“We have definitely learned at least one thing with this first comet landing: Bouncing is a bigger problem than a possible sinking into the ground,” said Philae project manager Stephan Ulamec.

Even though the Philae module woke up from hibernation “unexpectedly” last month, researchers have not been able to re-establish a connection to the module which, responsible for making a groundbreaking discovery, which could provide a lot of information on life in our solar system.

If comets are able to act as “messengers” throughout the solar system, the most important question we can ask is, if these comets could have brought the necessary elements for life on other planets and moons in our solar system. Scientists have speculated for a long time that life could have developed on moons such as Europa and Enceladus.

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NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks

One of the enormous earthwork configurations photographed from space is known as the Ushtogaysky Square, named after the nearest village in Kazakhstan.

CreditDigitalglobe, via NASA

High in the skies over Kazakhstan, space-age technology has revealed an ancient mystery on the ground.

Satellite pictures of a remote and treeless northern steppe reveal colossal earthworks — geometric figures of squares, crosses, lines and rings the size of several football fields, recognizable only from the air and the oldest estimated at 8,000 years old.

The largest, near a Neolithic settlement, is a giant square of 101 raised mounds, its opposite corners connected by a diagonal cross, covering more terrain than the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Another is a kind of three-limbed swastika, its arms ending in zigzags bent counterclockwise.

Described last year at an archaeology conference in Istanbul as unique and previously unstudied, the earthworks, in the Turgai region of northern Kazakhstan, number at least 260 — mounds, trenches and ramparts — arrayed in five basic shapes.

Spotted on Google Earth in 2007 by a Kazakh economist and archaeology enthusiast, Dmitriy Dey, the so-called Steppe Geoglyphs remain deeply puzzling and largely unknown to the outside world.

The Bestamskoe Ring is among the so-called Steppe Geoglyphs in Kazakhstan — at least 260 earthwork shapes made up of mounds, trenches and ramparts, the oldest estimated at 8,000 years old, recognizable only from the air.CreditDigitalglobe, via NASA

Two weeks ago, in the biggest sign so far of official interest in investigating the sites, NASA released clear satellite photographs of some of the figures from about 430 miles up.

“I’ve never seen anything like this; I found it remarkable,” said Compton J. Tucker, a senior biospheric scientist for NASA in Washington who provided the archived images, taken by the satellite contractor DigitalGlobe, to Mr. Dey and The New York Times.

Ronald E. LaPorte, a University of Pittsburgh scientist who helped publicize the finds, called NASA’s involvement “hugely important” in mobilizing support for further research.

This week, NASA put space photography of the region on a task list for astronauts in the International Space Station. “It may take some time for the crew to take imagery of your site since we are under the mercy of sun elevation angles, weather constraints and crew schedule,” Melissa Higgins of Mission Operations emailed Dr. LaPorte.

The archived images from NASA add to the extensive research that Mr. Dey compiled this year in a PowerPoint lecture translated from Russian to English.

“I don’t think they were meant to be seen from the air,” Mr. Dey, 44, said in an interview from his hometown, Kostanay, dismissing outlandish speculations involving aliens and Nazis. (Long before Hitler, the swastika was an ancient and near-universal design element.) He theorizes that the figures built along straight lines on elevations were “horizontal observatories to track the movements of the rising sun.”

Kazakhstan, a vast, oil-rich former Soviet republic that shares a border with China, has moved slowly to investigate and protect the finds, scientists say, generating few news reports.

“I was worried this was a hoax,” said Dr. LaPorte, an emeritus professor of epidemiology at Pittsburgh who noticed a report on the finds last year while researching diseases in Kazakhstan.

With the help of James Jubilee, a former American arms control officer and now a senior science and technology coordinator for health issues in Kazakhstan, Dr. LaPorte tracked down Mr. Dey through the State Department, and his images and documentation quickly convinced them of the earthworks’ authenticity and importance. They sought photos from KazCosmos, the country’s space agency, and pressed local authorities to seek urgent Unesco protection for the sites — so far without luck.

In the Cretaceous Period 100 million years ago, Turgai was bisected by a strait from what is now the Mediterranean to the Arctic Ocean. The rich lands of the steppe were a destination for Stone Age tribes seeking hunting grounds, and Mr. Dey’s research suggests that the Mahandzhar culture, which flourished there from 7,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C., could be linked to the older figures. But scientists marvel that a nomadic population would have stayed in place for the time required to fell and lay timber for ramparts, and to dig out lake bed sediments to construct the huge mounds, originally 6 to 10 feet high and now 3 feet high and nearly 40 feet across.

Persis B. Clarkson, an archaeologist at the University of Winnipeg who viewed some of Mr. Dey’s images, said these figures and similar ones in Peru and Chile were changing views about early nomads.

“The idea that foragers could amass the numbers of people necessary to undertake large-scale projects — like creating the Kazakhstan geoglyphs — has caused archaeologists to deeply rethink the nature and timing of sophisticated large-scale human organization as one that predates settled and civilized societies,” Dr. Clarkson wrote in an email.

“Enormous efforts” went into the structures, agreed Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, an archaeologist from Cambridge University and a lecturer at Vilnius University in Lithuania, who visited two of the sites last year. She said by email that she was dubious about calling the structures geoglyphs — a term applied to the enigmatic Nazca Lines in Peru that depict animals and plants — because geoglyphs “define art rather than objects with function.”

Dr. Matuzeviciute and two archaeologists from Kostanay University, Andrey Logvin and Irina Shevnina, discussed the figures at a meeting of European archaeologists in Istanbul last year.

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The earthworks, including the Turgai Swastika, were spotted on Google Earth in 2007 by Dmitriy Dey, a Kazakh archaeology enthusiast.CreditDigitalglobe, via NASA

With no genetic material to analyze — neither of the two mounds that have been dug into is a burial site — Dr. Matuzeviciute said she used optically stimulated luminescence, a method of measuring doses from ionizing radiation, to analyze the construction material, and came up with a date from one of the mounds of around 800 B.C. Other preliminary studies push the earliest date back more than 8,000 years, which could make them the oldest such creations ever found. Other materials yield dates in the Middle Ages.

Mr. Dey said some of the figures might have been solar observatories akin, according to some theories, to Stonehenge in England and the Chankillo towers in Peru.

“Everything is linked through the cult of the sun,” said Mr. Dey, who spoke in Russian via Skype through an interpreter, Shalkar Adambekov, a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh.

The discovery was happenstance.

In March 2007, Mr. Dey was at home watching a program, “Pyramids, Mummies and Tombs,” on the Discovery Channel. “There are pyramids all over the earth,” he recalled thinking. “In Kazakhstan, there should be pyramids, too.”

There were no pyramids. But, he said, about 200 miles to the south he saw something as intriguing — a giant square, more than 900 feet on each side, made up of dots, crisscrossed by a dotted X.

At first Mr. Dey thought it might be a leftover Soviet installation, perhaps one of Nikita S. Khrushchev’s experiments to cultivate virgin land for bread production. But the next day, Mr. Dey saw a second gigantic figure, the three-legged, swastikalike form with curlicue tips, about 300 feet in diameter.

Before the year was out, Mr. Dey had found eight more squares, circles and crosses. By 2012, there were 19. Now his log lists 260, including some odd mounds with two drooping lines called “whiskers” or “mustaches.”

Before setting out to look for the figures on the ground, Mr. Dey asked Kazakh archaeologists whether they knew of such things. The answer was no. In August 2007, he led Dr. Logvin and others to the largest figure, now called the Ushtogaysky Square, named after the nearest village.

“It was very, very hard to understand from the ground,” he recalled. “The lines are going to the horizon. You can’t figure out what the figure is.”

When they dug into one of the mounds, they found nothing. “It was not a cenotaph, where there } are belongings,” he said. But nearby they found artifacts of a Neolithic settlement 6,000 to 10,000 years old, including spear points.

Now, Mr. Dey said, “the plan is to construct a base for operations.”

“We cannot dig up all the mounds. That would be counterproductive,” he said. “We need modern technologies, like they have in the West.”

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SETI Receives First Alien Signal From Mysterious Star KIC 8462852

Since the discovery of the mysterious distant star named “KIC 8462852″ that scientists say shows a huge artificial structure on the star’s surface, SETI astronomers have announced the first alien signals being received from the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) telescopes.

Awaiting more accurate information about the way the signal before, but from an interview by UniverseToday.com by Dr. Gerald Harp from the SETI Institute, shows that it is a “weird periodic signal”, “which although potentially natural origin but there is clearly value to examine it more closely.” Besides the natural explanation, so stressed “Universe Today”, prefer Harp but also “a distant intelligent source” into consideration.

While ATA normally absorbs radio frequencies in the microwave range of 1-10 gigahertz (an ordinary kitchen microwave oven produces microwaves of around 2 GHz), looking for the SETI astronomers “KIC 8462852″ currently specially after transfers an even wider energy spectrum. Demand if they wanted to make in this way also huge extraterrestrial energy sources identify Harp declined to comment.

Currently it is working on SETI Institute in a scientific journal article to the collected signals and hope to publish these soon. The website of the Institute “SETI.org” will “soon” publish information about the captured signal.

Meanwhile also Harp speculation continues about the nature of the light pattern of “KIC 8462852″ himself: “Either we see the result of only recent, huge event such as the collision of two planets – or (the product of a) extra-terrestrial intelligence.” The Kepler data speak loudly Harp that around the star large quantities of material are grouped in the form of a ring.

The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) has called on its members in a warning for the investigation of the star. Opposite “Universe Today” also reflects the AAVSO astronomer Elizabeth Scales from unusual light pattern of “KIC 8462852″ fascinated: “Based on our information currently available, fits (the pattern) simply never previously known variable star.”

The 3,000 year old rocket ship: The Depiction of a Sky God?

It is definitely one of the most enigmatic artifact ever discovered by archeologists. It was excavated in Turkey in 1973 in a town called Tushpa, modern-day Toprakkale. In the distant past, Tushpa was the capital of the Kingdom of Urartu. The Urartian kingdom was an Iron Age Kingdom located near Lake Van in Armenia. The precious stone artifact made of soft yellowish brown stone is estimated to be around 3,000 years old, although some researchers speculate that the object could be much older than what researchers now believe.

“The object itself is a sculpted scale model of what, to modern eyes, looks like a cone-nosed space vehicle, 23 cm long, 9.5 cm high, and 8cm wide (about 5.7, 3.8, and 3.5 inches respectively). It is powered by a cluster of four exhaust engines in the back surrounding a larger exhaust engine. And in its center, the rocket ship has room for a sole pilot—a pilot [unfortunately headless] who is actually shown and included in the sculpture…”

The mysterious stone artifact is a key element in the Ancient Astronaut theory and many people believe it is the ultimate physical proof that otherworldly beings came to Earth in the distant past. Is it possible that this mysterious, enigmatic and puzzling artifact is a representation of an object that appeared in the sky above the kingdom of Uratia?

In his book, Sitchin further describes the enigmatic rocket ship.

“He sits with his legs bent up toward his chest. He wears a ribbed pressure suit; it is a one-piece suit that completely hugs the body. Down the legs and at the feet, it becomes boot-like. It extends and fully covers the folded arms, becoming glove-like where the hands are. The ribbed and presumably flexible suit encloses the whole torso—up to the pilot’s neck…”

We can observe that the head of the pilot is clearly missing, a detail that raises even more question about the enigmatic object. What was the pilot like? Did the pilot resemble human beings? And what about the helmet?

The story behind the location where the ‘rocket ship’ was unearthed is particularly interesting. The Great Kingdom of Urarta was located in the eastern region of Anatolia, close to the border of Iran. Interestingly, there, we can find the remains of the Temple of Khaldi, The Supreme sky god of the Urartian people. Is it possible that the rocket ship and its pilot are an actual representation of Khaldi? Khaldi or Hayk was in fact one of the three main deities of the Urartu people. It is particularly interesting that of all the Urartian Gods, the most inscriptions are in fact dedicated to Khaldi.

Sitchin describes the artifact in Atlantis Rising Magazine, Issue 15:

“a sculpted scale model of what, to modern eyes, looks like a cone-nosed rocket-ship… Powered by a cluster of four exhaust engines in the back surrounding a larger exhaust engine, the rocket-ship has room for a sole pilot—actually shown and included in the sculpture.”

But even more interesting is the Kingdom and its megalithic constructions. Urartu was a majestic kingdom in the past, and the remains of Toprakkale are clear evidence of cyclopean masonry, huge structures that were erected without the use of mortars.

It is clear that the ancient kingdom of Urartu is filled with enigmas, and the rocket ship excavated in the region remains as one of the greatest mysteries to archaeology, taking in count that the artifact isn’t a modern forgery which according to some researches is possible.

This 3000 year old spaceship is stored in the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul but mysteriously, it is not being exhibited.

Is THIS What NASA Wants To Keep A Secret From Us?

A satellite image taken in earth’s orbit has leaked on the internet. The photograph sourced to Brazilla Planetarium has a strange subject matter. In the image a large disk is said to be seen hovering above the earth’s surface.

Estimations by relevant scientists report that the disk in the photo is considered to be somewhere between 3,000-5,000 miles in diameter. Yet, the photograph has not appeared widely in the world’s press.

Of the picture in its lower left-hand corner a cloud formation appears to be passing above the disk. Supposedly, this is confirmation of the legitimacy of the object in the photo.

In scientific circles speculations abound. “Are we being visited by E. T.? Is this documentation of some type of ‘Mothership?’

Pre-Adamites: Ancient Civilizations developed on Earth before history suggests

Pre-Adamites: Ancient Civilizations developed on Earth before history suggests

Is it possible that advanced civilization existed on Earth before “recorded” history? Is it possible that religion only tells one side of the story?

According to two notable gentlemen such as Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate (circa A.D. 331–363) and Calvinist theologian Isaac de La Peyrère (1596-1676) Pre-Adamite beings did exist in the distant past on our planet. But mayo other historians and mainstream researchers suggest there was a race of people inhabiting Earth before Adam and Eve lived on our planet.

Due to the “fall” of “Satan” a widespread destruction occurred on planet Earth. The result of this destruction was so extensive that the world had to be redone with Adam and Eve being the first. But what happened really? Did “civilization” on Earth “restart” several times in the distant past?

Is it possible that in the distant past, Highly advanced civilizations inhabited the planet? Pre-Adamite beings?

Genesis 1:28 (ESV)28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Let reconsider the following; Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.

Considering the genealogy of man taking in count that Adam was the first human being in our era, it is reasonable to estimate that from Adam to our time about 6,000 years have passed. There were 76 generations from Adam to Jesus which are recorded in Matthew 23: 38. The History since God created the planet and from Adam to our time is just a fraction of the age and history of our planet and the universe. There have been other civilizations before “religion” was created.

The Adamic age, as the Bible suggests, will last 7.000 years culminating in the millennial reign of Christ on earth ruling from Jerusalem, and we are nearing the completion of the first 6,000 years of the Adamic period.

1Corinthians 15:45 (ESV)45Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

It is well-known that the Bible wasn’t actually made as a Book telling a universal history, nor cosmic or geological history and according to many researchers, it cannot be considered as a book of science.

Even though the bible clearly states, in the early chapters of Genesis that god is the responsible creator of the universe, man and animals, we cannot seem to understand what the bible suggests happened before this time.

We know today that our plant has been “here” for over 4,500 millions of years and that the universe is around 13,700 million years old. Some scientists suggest the age of both the universe and our planet is much older.

There are even certain Maya texts which indicated that our universe is around 16,700 million years old. These texts were inspired by “fallen angels” and “Gods” who gave the ancient Maya great knowledge; Teaching them in Astronomy, engineering, and mathematics, allowing them to erect some of the greatest temples on Earth, like Chichen Itza. Even though some consider these tales of gods only to be a myth, many believe that there is much truth in them.

Are we the first civilization to inhabit planet Earth?

Researchers have come across numerous findings which have confirmed that man has existed on Earth way before sacred books like the bible suggest.

But is it possible that Pre-Adamite civilizations existed on Earth? And better yet, is it possible that these ancient Pre-Historical civilizations might be connected in some way to the lost “civilization of Mu and Atlantis”?

Is it possible that the Bible speaks of beings that belonged to these ancient civilizations?

Some researchers believe that there is physical and Biblical evidence which points to great knowledge and scientific breakthroughs which the bible does not contradict.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 – 1:10:

9 That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there anything of which one might say, “See this, it is new “? Already it has existed for ages Which were before us.…

Is it possible that all of the highly advanced technologies that we have developed such as lasers, atomic bombs, satellites, computers, space ships and so on, existed in the distant past? With civilizations that predate “Adam and Eve”? According to Biblical accounts, nothing is new.

but not only do we have written evidence that points towards the existence civilizations before Adam. Researchers have found, in all corners of the world, physical evidence that points towards the existence of highly advanced ancient civilizations: The map of the Creator which is believed to be around 500 million years old, the giant footprint of 1.20 meters found in Swaziland, South Africa, estimated to be around 200 million years old, the sandal footprint found in Utah on a rock that is believed to be around 400 million years old, the Nevada sho print which is believed to be around 250 million years old, the fossilized human hand found in Colombia believed to be at least 100 million years old. these are just some of the findings that have been avoided by mainstream history and science. But is it possible that these findings are indications of Pre-Adamite civilizations?

Many researchers believe that highly advanced beings existed on Earth in the past, the evidence speaking of these beings can be found in ancient texts from different religions. The bible is one of them.

From all of the above we know that God did not create a planet empty nor in chaos, but Earth had become a desolate planet filled with destruction. Isaiah 45: 18 and Genesis 1: 2

We also know that God decides to ravage the land but not completely destroy it. Jeremiah 4: 27

We have found many pieces of evidence on our planet which confirm that after periods of civilized live on planet Earth, came cataclysms and destruction, but not a complete destruction of life on the planet. It is as if the planet restarted several times, with different beings, animals and life in general.

There is physical and Biblical evidence which indicates that possible existence of great cataclysms and catastrophes in the universe and on our planet which seem to support the idea that our planet passed through several stages in the distant past. We are surely not the first civilized beings that inhabited this planet.

If You're Not A Believer In Aliens, This News Footage Might Make You Think Again

If You're Not A Believer In Aliens, This News Footage Might Make You Think Again

While filming an interview in Lima, Peru, earlier last month, a news crew stumbled across a peculiar sight. What appeared almost undeniably to be at the very least a large and purple object was seen hovering over the capital city, that many at the time were heavily convinced was UFO.

The mysterious object was spotted in the middle of the day on February 10th, and hovered in the sky for at least two hours, until floating quickly away, according to witnesses. The Peru chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is investigating reports further.

Date of sighting: October 11, 2015Location of sighting: Keaton Beach, Florida, USASource: MUFON #71986Many UFOs have been reported from Florida beaches this month, but this has to be the most clear photo in a while. At first I thought this was the lost military blimp in the US, but this sighting took place 2 weeks before that incident ever happened. The UFO sits over the ocean and probably came from below the surface of the water. Scott C. Waringwww.ufosightingsdaily.comEyewitness states:My friend and I were fishing in Keaton Beach, FL and after pulling the boat out of the water, we noticed a big object in the sky to the west. It was a big rectangular shaped object moving very slow towards the south. We had no idea what the object was when we first saw it so a UFO came to mind. We took two pictures 40' apart from the same road. The object appeared to be moving the whole 30 minutes that we watched it. We had to leave the area while the object was still in the sky.

Elsewhere in Buryatia, close to Lake Baikal, there are reports of other strange sightings.

Earlier in October, residents of Ulan-Ude noticed unusual circles above the city, close to the LVRZ factory. Picture: Vkontakte

The latest unidentified flying objects in the capital of Buryatia have had the social media buzzing in recent days. A woman reported seeing a 'glowing' entity in the sky above Ulan-Ude with 'a lot of green lights, some red and blue'. She watched with her son and male two passers-by as the mysterious object disappeared and then reappeared 'very close', making a noise like the engine of a car, she claimed.

The men at first claimed it might be a toy plane or drone. 'When it stopped right above us, I could not say a word and saw the two men running to hide in a building,' said the woman. 'It was a very large saucer with bright green lights in the middle. My son got scared, grabbed my hand and we ran away. I never believed that something like that could exist.'

The chairman of the Union of Photographers of Buryatia, Sergey Konechnykh shows the pictures he made in July 2009, in Ulan-Ude. Pictures: NTV, Sergey Konechnykh

The account has similarities to a report from Listvyanka on the Lake Baikal shore in July 2010. On this occasion, a picture taken by Nikita Tomin showed three green-shaded lights on a 'UFO' flying above the resort in Irkutsk region. 'It flew right above us, very low. The object was shining down on us with a green light. We were a bit scared,' he said.

Another Ulan-Ude resident recently reported regularly seeing a bright glowing object from a balcony in the middle of the night, while someone else reported seeing red lights in the sky which appear then disappear.

Meanwhile in Khorinsk village, some 165 kilometres east of the city, a 35 year old man reported this week: 'I saw this with my own eyes. At about 7pm I went outside for a smoke, and noticed a glowing ball in the sky, very bright. It wasn't moving too fast. At first I thought it was another satellite, but when my eyes gradually got used to the dark, I estimated the distance between the ground and the ball, it was about 200-300 metres.

Picture taken by Nikita Tomin showed three green-shaded lights on a 'UFO' flying above the resort in Irkutsk region. Picture: Baikal Press, NTV

'It definitely wasn't a satellite. It was moving differently. The lights were gradually getting less bright and it was glowing red. I didn't hear a sound, it's very quiet where I live. There are no cars. I was standing silently and couldn't understand what was it. I observed it for 20-30 seconds. So scary. What could it be?'

Earlier in October, residents of Ulan-Ude noticed unusual circles above the city, close to the LVRZ factory, a repeat of a daytime appearance of these rings in December 2014.

NTV channel mock-up of 'flying saucer' based on accounts by residents of Kudara-Somon village in 1990. Marina Zimireva shows where the 'flying saucer' landed. Pictures: NTV

This year's list of strange sightings also includes vast Lake Baikal - a magnet for alleged UFOs since Soviet times - where locals saw bright glowing above the lake.

'Dozens of people saw a disk-like object which was as bright as 'three suns', it was reported. 'When it suddenly disappeared, people observing it couldn't explain if it flew away or disappeared in the water. The next morning there were tons of dead fish on the shore and birds and other animals refused to eat it.'

'The next morning there were tons of dead fish on the shore and birds and other animals refused to eat it.' Picture: Vkontakte

Around Posolsk, the water had an unnatural yellow-greenish tint. Another explanation of this was extreme heat in the summer and low water levels. As usual, surprisingly few pictures have emerged of the latest UFO sightings.

Versions of extra-terrestrial activity at Baikal - edged by mountains and containing one-fifth of the world's unfrozen freshwater - have appeared over many years to intrigue UFOlogists and include supposed aliens seen by military divers in its depth, and large 'spaceships' hovering over its grey, moody expanses.

Some of the images here show what two photographers claimed were UFOs buzzing the lake, while others are mock-ups from NTV based on descriptions of an incident at Kudara-Somon, in Buryatia, a quarter of a century ago.

Searching for Aliens in Roswell, New Mexico

If you don’t discover extraterrestrial life, you’ll still get plenty of photos to make your Facebook friends jealous.

While traveling, I’ve been on a lot of wild goose chases. I’ve searched for Nessie in Scotland, tried to find Bigfoot in Washington, listened for ghosts at The Stanley Hotel and, more recently, visited Roswell, New Mexico to find enlightenment about extra terrestrial visitors on Earth.

I didn’t expect much from Roswell, New Mexico. I was actually surprised there was even a town there, since most of the alien conspiracy TV shows use a lot of footage from farms and empty fields. Roswell is conveniently located between Albuquerque and Carlsbad Caverns, so it’s an easy stop if you enjoy quirky diversions. Most people have heard of the UFO cover-up theory that’s been circulating since the ’70s. In 1947, a mysterious object crashed near Corona, about 75 miles from Roswell. Officials claimed it was a weather balloon. Evidence of the crash seemingly disappeared shortly thereafter. It wasn’t a big deal until 20-something years later, when the story starting getting a lot more scrutiny. Since then, every crop circle, abduction story, UFO sighting, and suspicious government document about the 1947 crash has been collected and put on display in the UFO museum in Roswell.

And what a museum it is! The giant room’s walls are covered with newspaper clippings, photos, eyewitness accounts and bits of evidence that attempt to prove that not only are we not alone in the universe, but that we’ve been getting visitors from parts unknown for thousands of years. Not only does the museum display a few items from the TV show Roswell, there’s also a life-size replica of the “Palenque Astronaut” sarcophagus lid that is connected with alien visitations to the Mayan culture, some life-sized alien figures and—of course—a gift shop that offers every type of otherworldly trinket imaginable. The museum was fine and dandy, but in the end I just wanted some “I’ve been there” alien photos to go with my Route 66 sign. That’s where Area 51 comes in.

Area 51 is an extraterrestrial photographer’s paradise. There’s at least a dozen life-sized sets where you can sit with aliens, drink with them, poke your head out of a flying saucer, or lie on a table like you’re getting a body probe, not to mention plenty of retro-futuristic gadgets and gizmos that look like they came out of a 1960s science fiction movie. The store doesn’t take itself too seriously, and you’re guaranteed to get a few pics that will make your Facebook friends jealous. It only costs a couple of dollars. It was the most fun I had in Roswell.

Surprisingly, no one has cashed in on a science fiction–themed diner in a town that most people would consider to be the nucleus of all things “spacey.” The closest thing to a UFO-themed restaurant is one of the two McDonald’s in town. There’s a flying saucer sticking out of the roof of the playground and murals and 3D figures of the McDonald’s characters dressed in spacesuits orbiting cartoon planets. McDonald’s doesn’t claim that the moon is made of cheese… It’s made of cheeseburgers!

If you drive down the main street at night, you’ll notice an alien glow along the avenue. Years ago, a Roswell artist noticed the street lamps were shaped a little like alien heads and also happened to be green, the accepted color of visitors from space. The city wasn’t interested in modifying the lamps, so one night the artist, his wife, and a few friends spent the evening adding eyes to them. The city decided to leave them as a nod to its history. They’ve been there since 2001. Several enterprising residents have built homemade flying saucers that can be found around town. Type in “alien” in Google maps, and you might find the world’s only alien-themed Coke machine.

The alien hype doesn’t stop there. There’s dozens of T-shirt shops, souvenir marts and murals scattered through the town. You’ll find alien statues at gas stations and in front of stores, plus entire buildings painted with pictures of saucers and colorful planets. The most famous mural is a larger-than-life 3D one just south of town on the east side of the highway. This giant artistic rendering features a flying saucer landing, with Roswell residents interacting with their intergalactic visitors. The most prominent green man looks horrified at the apple pie being offered to him by a woman from the town, while to the right, a man has handed a set of jumper cables to an interstellar guest to help him start his broken truck. John Cerney completed this masterpiece in 2013, and it welcomes guests to the “alien capital of the world” as well as making a great addition to the rest of your alien photos. Hop through the barbed wire fence to get to it. Everyone else does.

Will a stop in Roswell make you believe that there’s life on other planets? Even if it doesn’t, you’ll have a great time searching the skies for answers to questions that you probably never thought about. It’s less than 3 hours southeast of Albuquerque and about an hour north of Carlsbad.

EXCLUSIVE: Scores of Sheffield people call South Yorkshire police to report UFOs and aliens

EXCLUSIVE: Scores of Sheffield people call South Yorkshire police to report UFOs and aliens

Little green men and Unidentified Flying Objects have made contact with Earth - and they have landed in South Yorkshire.

That’s according to some of the scores of callers to South Yorkshire Police’s 999 and 101 numbers in the past two years.

A ghoul at Silica Lodge Garden Centre.

Officers have been called out to deal with extra-terrestrial contact on 30 occasions - even if a few of them turned out to be more large pint glasses than little green men who were ultimately responsible.

As part of The Star’s week-long Halloween coverage of ghosts, ghouls and all things unusual, we’ve compiled a list of the best alien calls, based on a Freedom of Information Act request to South Yorkshire Police.

1. December 2014: Call to public house to deal with an intoxicated individual who is talking about aliens and won’t leave the premises. Officers attended. Individual has been put in a taxi.

2. October 2014: Caller phones to say aliens are killing him/her and clears the line. Recontacted caller, who put the phone down.

3. November 2014: Call from individual who states there are aliens in his/her house. Officers attend and individual now believes this was all in his/her mind.

4. December 2014: Multiple calls from individual for various reasons including stating there are thousands of aliens in the sky. Believe this to be a hoax call.

5. October 2014: Call received from individual who believes aliens are coming. Caller sounds confused. Officers attended the property. Caller stated that he/she could not be bothered to answer the door. Incident completed.

6. September 2014: Call received from individual who believes aliens have been coming through the Wi-Fi with threats to kill. Advice & reassurance offered.

7. September 2014: Caller phones to say UFO has just landed outside his/her property and wondered if anyone else had reported it. Incident closed as no other reports of any sightings.

8. December 2013: Caller reports strange lights in the sky and asks if we have had any other calls. Advised that we have had no other reports.

9. October 2014: Call to report an individual known to caller and who has mental health issues; is at caller’s property refusing to leave. Individual is talking about having alien DNA. Officers attend, consulted with medical professionals and took individual home.

10. June 2015: Call from regular confused caller who rings several times on various subjects including aliens. Regular confused caller - no policing purpose. No action taken.

11. August 2015: Caller wants to report that a UFO has just flown past his/her property. No action taken.

12. September 2015: Regular confused caller who states that aliens are coming... he/she has seen it on TV. Caller advised that TV is not real. Handler asks if there is anyone we can ring for him/her. Caller says not.

13. September 2015: Call to advise an individual is in the middle of the road, saying aliens told him/her to commit suicide. Officers took individual back to home address to await health professionals.

15. March 2015: Regular confused caller rings several times. Talking in rambling fashion, about various things including meat from aliens. No action taken.

16. September 2014: Caller believes he/she hears the voices of aliens who have threatened to abduct him/her.

Tracy Potter, head of communications at South Yorkshire Police, said: “What the content of these calls illustrate is that people call both 999 and 101 with an incredibly wide variety of concerns.

“What this data in particular also highlights is that many calls of this nature are not really police concerns and increase demand on the service, which can impact on the response we provide to the public.

“There are, however, certain examples where people have reported noises at a property and believe it to be ghostly activity. Our officers must still respond to ensure that a burglary or other form of crime is not being committed.

“Our officers will also respond if there is a suggestion that the welfare of an individual is at risk.

“Some of the calls demonstrate that there are occasions where officers must work closely with health professionals to ensure that the individual concerned is safe and well. This is part of our ongoing commitment alongside partner agencies to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the public in South Yorkshire.

“Unfortunately there are examples given here of individuals making hoax calls, which diverts vital officers and resources to a non-incident when there could be a legitimate incident that requires a response elsewhere in the county. This is simply not acceptable and wherever possible we will address this issue robustly.”

Alien Encounters By Russian Cosmonauts

Soviet, and later, Russian cosmonauts have observed interesting , unusual, and often inexplicable phenomena while in space. Some of them have talked about their experiences, although doing so is not encouraged by their space program. A cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft; cosmonauts are professional space travelers. Cosmonaut Vladimir Lyakhov once remarked about a very unusual phenomenon he observed from his spaceship looking down on Earth: two gigantic waves ascended from the waters of the Indian Ocean, and crashed onto each other. The mass of water resulting from the crash seemed to be a giant mountain that had vanished in an instant (published in Tekhnika-Molodezhi,Issue 3, 1980). Cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalyonok reported a very similar water pillar of over 100 kilometers in height in the Timor Sea near Australia. Cosmonaut Vladimir Kubasov told a reporter that he and others had numerous facts that prove the existence of UFOs. This was the year of the famous Teheran UFO incident. In 1978, Vladimir Kovalyonok observed a strange object on August 15 from the Salyut-6 space station: it approached and distanced itself repeatedly. Cosmonauts Valery Ryumin and Leonid Popov, while aboard the same station in 1980 (from June 14 to 15) had observed a school of white glowing dots that took-off in the area of Moscow, and flew into space above their station. They reported it to the ground control.

In the year 1982, on July 12, Soviet cosmonauts Georgy Beregovoy and Valentin Lebedev were able to observe an unusual drop-shaped object on the monitor’s screen of the Salyut-7. It flew, ascending, between the orbital space station and Progressor-14 craft. The object, at the distance of 200 meters, could have been the size of a spaceship. In the year 1982, on July 12, Soviet cosmonauts Georgy Beregovoy and Valentin Lebedev were able to observe an unusual drop-shaped object on the monitor’s screen of the Salyut-7. It flew, ascending, between the orbital space station andProgressor-14 craft. The object, at the distance of 200 meters, could have been the size of a spaceship.

On the 155th day of the station’s flight, the crew was busy with planned experiments, tests, and scientific observations. They were about to start medical experiments. All of them were experienced, skilled cosmonauts. Then, something that was out of their experience, knowledge, and understanding occurred. In front of the Salyut- 7 station, out of nowhere, a large, orange, gas cloud suddenly appeared, its origin unknown. The cosmonauts immediately informed the Tsentrupravleniya poletom(Soviet Space Mission Control Center). While the astonished Tsentr analyzed the report, Salyut-7entered the cloud. The crew had a brief impression that the orange cloud entered their station. They were all engulfed by the mysterious orange glow, blinded, out of contact with their comrades. But their sight, however, was restored quickly. The cosmonauts stumbled to the station’s portholes. What they saw left them speechless: seven gigantic shapes could be easily discerned inside the orange cloud. Their political ideals, their faith in Marxist-Leninist postulates were gone in a flash. None doubted their eyes. None questioned the shapes: seven heavenly angels. The angels looked like humans, and yet they were different. Yes, the angels possessed huge wings, and blinding halos. The main difference, however, lay in the angels’ smiles. When they gazed upon the Soviet crew, they smiled. The Soviet cosmonauts recalled what wonderful smiles the angels had. Smiles of joy, of rapture…no human could smile like that. Ten minutes passed quickly. As the clock ticked away the time, the angels disappeared, along with their cloud. The crew of Salyut-7 felt a devastating loss. But Earth was demanding explanation. When the Tsentr received the report, it was immediately classified as “top secret.” A special team of doctors was formed to study cosmonauts’ well-being. Hence, instead of carrying out further experiments in space, the crew was ordered to measure its own physical and mental health. The tests indicated that the cosmonauts were well and of sound mind.

The Ancient Masters Teotihuacan

The Ancient Masters Teotihuacan. Our journey into this sacred city of plazas, temples and pyramids follows this path devised by the ancient masters – illuminating those places in our minds where fearful beliefs limit our happiness, peace, and joy. Reborn, with expanded awareness, we learn to choose love over fear – awakening to the truth of who we really are – and restoring the innate magnificence of our authentic selves.

We invite you to experience the mysterious essence of transformation. Gini Gentry and friends will share ceremonies and practices from the Toltec wisdom tradition that Teotihuacan was built to preserve. Many thousands of years ago, the Toltecs understood that our lives can be a dream of heaven on earth – a dream filled with peace, happiness, grace and love.

UFO Reveals Glitch In Its Shields When It Slows down Over New Mexico, Oct 22, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

I have often talked about UFOs being partly cloaked, or about their cloak being vulnerable during sunset due to the angle of the sun. Well, here someone has found a remarkable craft over New Mexico decloaking partly, due to its fast speed reduction. Whats even more unbelievable is it was found on a NASA site, using their cameras. That means the source (NASA) is impeccable. That means, the probability of it being a real UFO is extremely high.Scott C. Waringwww.ufosightingsdaily.com

Nemesis Maturityof Youtube states:Cloaked Starship' Captured By NASA All-Sky Cameras in New Mexico NASA's All-Sky Cameras Caught a 'cloaked starship' Illuminates the Night Sky in New Mexico The object's luminous/shimmering appearance seemed to resemble a 'cloaked starship'. It seems to fly very smoothly gliding effortlessly through the air.

Date of sighting: October 2015Location of sighting: Sea cave, Coast of Paraga, GreeceNews source:http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2015/10/28/tourist-captures-mysterious-sea-monster-off-grecian-coastline/Are aliens vacationing in our oceans? Since the Earth is 75% covered in water, the possibility exists. How do we know that intelligent aquatic species in the universe don't exist? We don't. Alien species range from the expected to the bazar. Our oceans are an invite to intelligent aquatic aliens everywhere. Here a person captured an image of a sea creature that marine biologists have not been able to identify. Scott C. Waringwww.ufosightingsdaily.comNews states: A Scottish tourist unwittingly captured an unidentifiable sea monster while vacationing in Greece. Harvey Robertson was on a boat cruise off the coast of Parga, sailing through sea caves with his family. He was initially just trying to capture the unusual color of the surrounding water with his iPhone camera. What he shot instead has baffled those across the Internet—and marine scientists. Looking back through his camera, Robertson saw that he had captured a grey creature that resembles an elongated manatee. The strange animal appears to pop out of the water in one photo, then disappears under the greenish water in the next. Related Image harveymonster3434553.jpgExpand / Contract The creature disappears back into the bright green water. (Courtesy Harvey Roberston) “I didn't actually see the animal at the time as was trying to capture the water color (fluorescent blue) at the point before becoming black,” Robertson told FoxNews.com via email. “You can only imagine my surprise when I was looking back through my photos.” (More at source).

Prehistoric Rock Paintings Show A UFO and Aliens

Did extraterrestrials visit Earth 10,000 years ago, close to the time when humanity invented writing and the wheel?

Some, of course, believed aliens did and there were paintings to prove it.

In 2014, an Indian archaeologist claimed that 10,000-year-old paintings on a rock in Charama, India were a substantial evidence of an actual UFO.

According to BeforeItsNews, local archaeology department is now looking for NASA’s help.

Archaeologist JR Bhagat said the findings may suggest that prehistoric humans may have imagined or seen beings from other planets, which still create interest among researchers and ordinary people. He said that more comprehensive research is needed for further discoveries.

The bizarre rock paintings include figures holding weapon-like things. These figures don’t have specific features – no nose and mouth. In a few images, these figures are seen wearing spacesuits.

Prehistoric men may also have the imagination of aliens or beings from other planets, but humans often fancy such things.

Others believe that the fact may inspire imaginations. In this case, prehistoric men are thought to have the knowledge about or perhaps seen real ET visitors.

Our Expanding Universe: Age, History & Other Facts

he universe was born with the Big Bang as an unimaginably hot, dense point. When the universe was just 10-34 of a second or so old — that is, a hundredth of a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second in age — it experienced an incredible burst of expansion known as inflation, in which space itself expanded faster than the speed of light. During this period, the universe doubled in size at least 90 times, going from subatomic-sized to golf-ball-sized almost instantaneously.

According to NASA, after inflation the growth of the universe continued, but at a slower rate. As space expanded, the universe cooled and matter formed. One second after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with neutrons, protons, electrons, anti-electrons, photons and neutrinos.

During the first three minutes of the universe, the light elements were born during a process known as Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Temperatures cooled from 100 nonillion (1032) Kelvin to 1 billion (109) Kelvin, and protons and neutrons collided to make deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen. Most of the deuterium combined to make helium, and trace amounts of lithium were also generated.

For the first 380,000 years or so, the universe was essentially too hot for light to shine, according to France's National Center of Space Research (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales,or CNES). The heat of creation smashed atoms together with enough force to break them up into a dense plasma, an opaque soup of protons, neutrons and electrons that scattered light like fog.

Roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang, matter cooled enough for atoms to form during the era of recombination, resulting in a transparent, electrically neutral gas, according to NASA. This set loose the initial flash of light created during the Big Bang, which is detectable today as cosmic microwave background radiation. However, after this point, the universe was plunged into darkness, since no stars or any other bright objects had formed yet.

About 400 million years after the Big Bang, the universe began to emerge from the cosmic dark ages during the epoch of reionization. During this time, which lasted more than a half-billion years, clumps of gas collapsed enough to form the first stars and galaxies, whose energetic ultraviolet light ionized and destroyed most of the neutral hydrogen.

Since the universe by its definition encompasses all of space and time as we know it, NASA says it is beyond the model of the Big Bang to say what the universe is expanding into or what gave rise to the Big Bang. Although there are models that speculate about these questions, none of them have made realistically testable predictions as of yet.

In 2014, scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that they had found a faint signal in the cosmic microwave background that could be the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, themselves considered a "smoking gun" for the Big Bang. The findings werehotly debated, but the search for these mysterious ripples continues.

The globular cluster NGC 6397 contains around 400,000 stars and is located about 7,200 light years away in the southern constellation Ara. With an estimated age of 13.5 billion years, it is likely among the first objects of the Galaxy to form after the Big Bang.Credit: European Southern Observatory

The universe is currently estimated at roughly 13.8 billion years old, give or take 130 million years. In comparison, the solar system is only about 4.6 billion years old.

This estimate came from measuring the composition of matter and energy density in the universe. This allowed researchers to compute how fast the universe expanded in the past. With that knowledge, they could turn the clock back and extrapolate when the Big Bang happened. The time between then and now is the age of the universe.

Structure

Scientists think that in the earliest moments of the universe, there was no structure to it to speak of, with matter and energy distributed nearly uniformly throughout. According to NASA, the gravitational pull of small fluctuations in the density of matter back then gave rise to the vast web-like structure of stars and emptiness seen today. Dense regions pulled in more and more matter through gravity, and the more massive they became, the more matter they could pull in through gravity, forming stars, galaxiesand larger structures known as clusters, superclusters, filaments and walls, with "great walls" of thousands of galaxies reaching more than a billion light years in length. Less dense regions did not grow, evolving into area of seemingly empty space called voids.

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Until about 30 years ago, astronomers thought that the universe was composed almost entirely of ordinary atoms, or "baryonic matter," According to NASA. However, recently there has been ever more evidence that suggests most of the ingredients making up the universe come in forms that we cannot see.

It turns out that atoms only make up 4.6 percent of the universe. Of the remainder, 23 percent is made up of dark matter, which is likely composed of one or more species of subatomic particles that interact very weakly with ordinary matter, and 72 percent is made of dark energy, which apparently is driving the accelerating expansion of the universe.

When it comes to the atoms we are familiar with, hydrogen makes up about 75 percent, while helium makes up about 25 percent, with heavier elements making up only a tiny fraction of the universe's atoms, according to NASA.

Shape

The shape of the universe and whether or not it is finite or infinite in extent depends on the struggle between the rate of its expansion and the pull of gravity. The strength of the pull in question depends in part on the density of the matter in the universe.

If the density of the universe exceeds a specific critical value, then the universe is "closed" and "positive curved" like the surface of a sphere. This means light beams that are initially parallel will converge slowly, eventually cross and return back to their starting point, if the universe lasts long enough. If so, according to NASA, the universe is not infinite but has no end, just as the area on the surface of a sphere is not infinite but has no beginning or end to speak of. The universe will eventually stop expanding and start collapsing in on itself, the so-called "Big Crunch."

If the density of the universe is less than this critical density, then the geometry of space is "open" and "negatively curved" like the surface of a saddle. If so, the universe has no bounds, and will expand forever.

If the density of the universe exactly equals the critical density, then the geometry of the universe is "flat" with zero curvature like a sheet of paper, according to NASA. If so, the universe has no bounds and will expand forever, but the rate of expansion will gradually approach zero after an infinite amount of time. Recent measurements suggest that the universe is flat with only a 2 percent margin of error.

It is possible that the universe has a more complicated shape overall while seeming to possess a different curvature. For instance, the universe could have the shape of a torus, or doughnut.

Expanding universe

After that, it was long thought the gravity of matter in the universe was certain to slow the expansion of the universe. Then, in 1998, the Hubble Space Telescope's observations of very distant supernovae revealed that a long time ago, the universe was expanding more slowly than it is today. In other words, the expansion of the universe was not slowing due to gravity, but instead inexplicably was accelerating. The name for the unknown force driving this accelerating expansion is dark energy, and it remains one of the greatest mysteries in science.

If you read a bit about the UFO phenomena you will notices that there is a shocking number of comments from highly classified people regarding alien technology and life elsewhere in the cosmos.

Today we have interesting comments from government officials, military personnel, scientists, politicians and astronauts who all seem to agree that life is not limited to Earth. Conspiracy theory or not, the truth is that many people believe that we are not alone in the universe and that the mysterious UFO sightings (which have increased over the years) are not solely the result of secret military technology.

But why are we still surprised when we hear about Alien technology and UFO’s?

“The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven’t even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.” – Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at California’s SETI Institute

The possibility that life exists, elsewhere in the universe is greater than ever. Can we handle the truth?

Perhaps the most shocking comments about Alien life and the UFO phenomena were made by the second director of Lockheed Skunkworks, Ben Rich, a man who oversaw the construction of some of the most advanced military aircrafts in the history of mankind: the stealth fighter and the 17A nighthawk.

According to James Godwell, an aerospace journalist who wrote for several publications like Jane’s Defense Weekly, Aviation Week and Space Technology, and Interavia, during some of his interviews with highly ranked individuals in the military and aerospace industry, some of his contacts said “we have things out there that are literally out of this world, better than Star Trek or what you see in the movies.”

Just before his death, Ben Rich talked about the UFO phenomenon and the truth behind the conspiracy.

“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do it.”

“We now have technology to take ET home. No it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars.”

“There are two types of UFOs — the ones we build and the ones ‘they’ build.”

According to statements from James Godwell, he knew Ben Rich very well and he stated that ten days before Ben Rich died, they spoke and Ben Rich opened up about UFO’s.

“About ten days before he died, I was speaking to Ben on the telephone at the USC Medical Center in LA. And he said, ‘Jim, we have things out in the desert that are fifty years beyond what you can comprehend. They have about forty-five hundred people at the Lockheed Skunk works. What have they been doing for the last eighteen or twenty years? They’re building something.’”

According to SETI Institute’s Seth Shostak, with trillions of planets out there, chances are too good to discount the idea that Alien life exists.

“If you extrapolate on the planets they discovered, there are a trillion planets in the galaxy. That’s a lot of places for life,” Shostak said, as quoted by ABC. “We know that the majority of stars have planets,” but what “fraction of stars has planets that are more like the earth? It might be one in five.”

“The chances of finding it I think are good and if that happens it will happen in the next 20 years depending on the financing,” he added in written testimony, according to BuzzFeed.”

According to John Andrews, another Lockheed engineer who had direct communication with Ben Rich, the former director of Lockheed Skunkworks firmly believed in UFO’s, and when asked if he believed in the existence of the mysterious objects Ben Rich responded:

“Yes, I’m a believer in both categories. I feel everything is possible. Many of our man-made UFOs are Un-Funded Opportunities. There are two types of UFOs, the ones we build, and the ones they build.”

“We now know how to travel to the stars. There is an error in the equations, and we have figured it out, and now know how to travel to the stars and it won’t take a lifetime to do it. It is time to end all the secrecy on this, as it no longer poses a national security threat, and make the technology available for use in the private sector. There are many in the intelligence community who would like to see this stay in the black and not see the light of day. We now have the technology to take ET home.”

Bill McDonalds, a forensic illustrator for the aerospace industry, and who was a good friend of John Andrews also talked about Ben Rich and UFO’s:

“It was Ben Rich’s opinion that the public should not be told. He believed they could not handle the truth, ever. Only in the last months of his decline did he begin to feel that the international corporate Board of Directors’ dealing with the ‘Subject’ could represent a bigger problem to citizens’ personal freedoms under the United States Constitution than the presence of off world visitors themselves.”

It seems that after all, it isn’t that hard to believe in the commentaries of astronauts, engineers, government officials and other individuals who have opened up about Alien Life and the UFO phenomena.

The only questions that we need to ask is: Is our society ready for the truth? And how much would life as we know it change, knowing that we have more than one cosmic neighbor?

Falling Space Junk Will Burn Up In Earth's Atmosphere Next Month

A piece of space junk will fall back to Earth next month, giving researchers a chance to study how incoming objects behave when they hit the planet’s atmosphere.

The object, which is known as WT1190F, is expected to enter Earth's atmosphere on Nov. 13 above the Indian Ocean, about 62 miles (100 kilometers) south of Sri Lanka. The impending impact poses little risk to people, experts say.

"The object is quite small, at most a couple of meters in diameter, and a significant fraction if not all of it can be expected to completely burn up in the atmosphere," Tim Flohrer, of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Space Debris Office at the European Space Operations Center in Germany, said in a statement. [Space Junk: How It Got There and What To Do About It (Video)]

WT1190F's demise should be dramatic to people near the entry site nonetheless, generating a bright fireball in the daytime sky on Nov. 13, ESA officials said.

WT1190F was detected on Oct. 3 by astronomers with the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, who subsequently realized that they had imaged the object in 2013 as well. The team's observations revealed that WT1190F orbits Earth every three weeks on a highly elliptical path.

Astronomers have also learned that the object is not dense enough to be a rocky body such as an asteroid and is therefore probably a piece of space junk, researchers said.

"This density is in fact compatible with the object being a hollow shell, such as the spent upper stage of a rocket body or part of a stage," Detlef Koschny, who's responsible for near-Earth object (NEO) activities at ESA’s Space Situational Awareness program office, said in the same statement.

Earth is surrounded by an ever-growing cloud of orbital debris that contains at least 20,000 objects larger than a softball, 500,000 bigger than a marble and millions of shreds and shards too small to track, NASA researchers have said.

Astronomers are keeping a close eye on WT1190F, and they'll study its re-entry avidly to get a better idea of what happens when pieces of space junk come crashing back to Earth.

"The first goal will be to better understand the re-entry of satellites and debris from highly eccentric orbits," said Marco Micheli, an astronomer working at ESA's NEO Coordination Center in Italy.

"Second, it provides an ideal opportunity to test our readiness for any possible future atmospheric entry events involving an asteroid, since the components of this scenario, from discovery to impact, are all very similar," Micheli added.

Retired RCMP officer remembers Clarenville UFO experience

Close encounters of the Smith Sound kind

Submitted photoA recent photo of Const. James Blackwood in the woods near his property in Nova Sco

It’s late October and the streets will soon be filled with ghosts, goblins and all kinds of paranormal creatures.

But most millennials probably aren’t aware Clarenville is home to its own supernatural experience some 37 years ago.

Though, according to the movies, kindly government officials dressed in black usually wipe our memories of this sort of thing, they didn’t get to Const. Jim Blackwood and a dozen other locals who happened to bear witness to a strange cigar-shaped aircraft hovering over Random Island in October 1978.

When the 25-year-old Blackwood responded to the call from the group on Marine Drive, he assumed it was a simple case of the b’ys getting into the moonshine and letting their imaginations run wild.

But, what Blackwood ended up seeing made him a minor celebrity and the subject of ridicule on the force, so much so that after leaving Clarenville he rarely spoke of the incident.

“I went down and the craft was hovering between Clarenville and Random Island, right on the water. It was only a couple hundred feet off the water. It was there for good two hours before it left,” the now retired Blackwood told The Packet from his home in Nova Scotia.

“I activated the roof lights of my police car and it activated lights at the same time.”

Chester Lethbridge and his wife were among those gathered on the water. They asked him why he would do such a thing. Blackwood explained he was trying to make contact.

“He said he didn’t want to make contact, and he didn’t want to know what was in there and then took off,” Blackwood said.

Using a special telescope for drug surveillance, the once skeptical Blackwood had an up close view to something he can’t explain to this day.

“Chester (Lethbridge) had binoculars. But this thing was a lot better with 60 times’ magnification. I got to see it close up. It didn’t come any closer to us and as it started to leave it went up slow, taking forever to rise — then vroom — gone like a shooting star,” Blackwood said.

Clarenville became Newfoundland’s own Roswell as UFO fever gripped the town for years to come. The old timers hockey team changed their name to the Clarenville UFOs, the local Holiday Inn had a weekend for two UFO special and local auto dealers held extraterrestrial-themed car sales.

“We didn’t see the thing after that. But we did have a lot of calls prior to that. At that particular time there was a flight from Jordan heading to Toronto that happened to see it and it was picked up by radar in Gander. It was a big issue at the time,” Blackwood said.

Blackwood was driven half crazy getting blitzed with media requests. Predicting the ribbing from fellow officers and friends, he refused to talk at first, but eventually the staff sergeant informed him that the powers that be in St. John’s wanted him to grant all interviews. He ended up spending the next couple weeks talking to every major newspaper and media source across the country.

“For two solid weeks all I did was answer the phone and get paid for it. I was on CBC, NTV and BBC. You name it and I was on it,” Blackwood said.

Blackwood is an aircraft enthusiast with a working knowledge of all kinds of planes. He is confidently convinced the hovering object the size of a Boeing 737, was not something from around here.

“I’m familiar with aircrafts of all shapes and sizes. But the metal on it was not like aircraft metal. It was very dull and not shiny at all. It wasn’t even smooth. It was very coarse looking,” he said.

“The technology was way beyond what we had then and still way beyond what we have now.”

Before the incident, Blackwood was not the type to watch the skies. In the years that followed he didn’t develop any kind of interest in little green men.

“Some people would go right hog wild into them, but I never bothered. It was a once in a lifetime thing,” he said.

After leaving the Clarenville detachment, the years of ribbing, ridicule and “Mork and Mindy” jokes deterred him from mentioning the incident to anyone when returning home to Nova Scotia in the mid 1980s.

The National Research Council in Ottawa had an upper atmosphere research facility responsible for UFO reports.

An NRC agent named A.G. MacNamara responded to the reports saying the planet Jupiter is brilliant in mid-October when near the Mediterranean Sea.

“I tore a strip off him. He had this big explanation, but he didn’t talk to me or talk to any of the other 12 witnesses,” Blackwood said. “He just surmised this on his own. There was this guy doing a paper on it. I told him what I thought of him. How the hell can a planet cast a shadow on the water? How can it come down that close that it can block out Random Island?”

Though he hasn’t brought the topic up voluntarily with anyone in decades, he is still contacted by UFO researchers and enthusiasts. He recently recounted his experience with world-renowned professional ufologist Stanton Friedman, an original civilian investigator of the Roswell incident. The TV series “Close Encounters,” which re-enacts alien encounters, has an episode planned on Blackwood’s experience.

Though the experience garnered him some celebrity, on the whole it caused him more grief than it was worth.

So this Halloween season, if you happen to spy a strange looking object over the water near Random Island, maybe just chalk it up to swamp gas and carry on, or else the men in black might show up at your door.

Command Sergeant Major James Norton: I Have Proof Of Alien UFO!

Way back in September 1977, during the Joint Attack Weapons Systems Test (JAWS) at Fort Benning Georgia, the entire base witnessed what appeared to be a UFO invasion. As much as 1300 troops were involved in this incredible event. Most were left with severe psychological trauma and “missing time” gaps.

Command Sergeant Major James Norton, who is now stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama. He was a buck sergeant (E-5) at the time when he witnessed an eerie encounter with UFOs and the military on September 14, 1977. He was sent to the range a little just before midnight along with around 1200 to 1300 troops to perform live fire with their new weapons systems called JAWS (Joint Attack Weapons System). The Secretary of the Army at the time was actually at the range too!

Command Sergeant Major James Norton remembers clearly when they started the live fire training when all of a sudden there were large orbs way up high in the night sky above them. The next thing he witnessed was what appeared to be lasers crisscrossing through the night sky. The command of ‘cease fire’ was heard shouted out towards the troops, because there was something down range. Military helicopters appeared suddenly out of nowhere. Explosions were then heard, complete madness had broken out around him! Orbs in the night sky were changing a variety of different colours, a lot like the kind of Orbs that are being seen around the world today! Then a Triangle shaped UFO showed up. The soldiers around Norton were in complete shock and awe at this spectacle that was now suddenly in front of them.

After this incredible incident many soldiers became very ill. Every soldier who witnessed this crazy event was briefed that if they were to EVER disclose any information reference the night of these bizarre events, they would be court marshalled immediately and sent to Leavenworth. When Norton eventually obtained his medical records it disclosed that his illness was of unknown origin, his temperature was 104, he was placed in a steel tub of iced water for 2 days, to help bring his temperature down.

Norton had a memory lapse or as we know it in UFO ‘Speak’ it is also called “missing time”. He could not remember how he was on the range and then later found himself alone in the woods. There was an awful lot of time disorientation. During a hypnosis session, he learned that he was actually abducted and taken aboard an unknown craft. Medical experiments were conducted and samples were taken from his body.

After the incident two jets came in that appeared to be white washed, no numbers or identification were on the jets. The jets were there purely to collect UFO crash site debris!

UFO Proof:

Norton picked up a metallic piece from the crash site that had/has strange hieroglyphics on it. This metallic piece cannot be burned. A hacksaw will not cut it either and if you bend it, it will just go back to its original shape. Norton has this metallic piece apparently BURIED AT HIS PROPERTY!?

Norton is now willing and ready to show this evidence to some credible UFologists and to the media! Norton claims he has a 100% proof of UFOs being real, with this solid piece of evidence that he held onto since the incident itself!!

Military helicopters shot down:

The military helicopters that were shot down during the incident, were never actually ever reported to the FAA. He was also burned from a mysterious red substance from this incident!?

Norton is now stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama and describes how they experiment with biological and chemical substances on this base and that something else is going on there. There is UFO activity at this base, it seems that our military is test flying UFOs all over the base!

One side note: For 62 years, the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, has trained some of the worst human rights abusers in the hemisphere.

Other Proof:

Norton even has some incredible night vision footage of all of the UFOs in their different colours taken on the base. He also has footage of a UFO going from one horizon to another horizon in only about a mere 2 seconds. He has video footage of a triangle shaped UFO that hovers over the base, no sound being emitted from it. He has all of this video footage for any credible Ufologist to review, of which he now ready to share with the right people!

John Vasquez, Co-Author of ‘Incident at Fort Benning ’ recounts his experience as a soldier at Fort Benning in down below video

FIRING ON HIGHEST LEVEL: LARGE HADRON COLLIDER 'COULD BE ABOUT TO FIND A PARALLEL UNIVERSE'

FIRING ON HIGHEST LEVEL: LARGE HADRON COLLIDER 'COULD BE ABOUT TO FIND A PARALLEL UNIVERSE'

The Large Hadron Collider is now firing at its highest-ever energy level - and scientists hope we could find a parallel universe.

It won’t be a parallel universe as seen in science fiction - but it could give our understanding of physics is about to take a very big jolt indeed.

One of the many mind-scrambling ideas on the table is that the Big Bang never happened, and the universe has always existed.

Scarily, scientists are combing through results from June in the hope of finding evidence of mini black holes produced inside the collider.

‘Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional objects (breadth and length) can exist in a third dimension (height), parallel universes can also exist in higher dimensions’ Cern employee Mir Faizal from the University of Waterloo said.

‘We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC.’

‘Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualised ( via uk.news.yahoo.com ).

‘This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science. This is not what we mean by parallel universes. What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions.’

Our place in the universe is a conundrum — life on Earth evolved to create a technologically-savvy race that is now looking for other technologically-savvy intelligences populating our galaxy. But there's a problem; it looks like humanity is the only "intelligent" species in our little corner of the universe — what gives?

This question forms the basis of the Fermi Paradox: given the age of the universe and the apparent high probability of life evolving on other planets orbiting other stars, where are all the smart aliens?

According to a new study based on data collected by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, it might be that Earth (and all life on it) is an early bloomer. By extension, the logical progression from this new study is that we're not hearing from advanced alien civilizations because, in short, the universe hasn't had the time to spawn many more habitable worlds.

The study, which focuses purely on the likelihood of the evolution of habitable worlds (and not speculation of alien intelligence, the Fermi Paradox implication is my own), finds that when our planet was born from our young sun's protoplanetary disk some 4.6 billion years ago, it was born into an era when only "8 percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in the universe existed." This means that the universe has 92 percent to go until it runs out of the necessary material to produce the stars that go on to produce planets, some of which will be small and rocky and orbit in just the right location for life (as we know it) to thrive.

"Our main motivation was understanding the Earth's place in the context of the rest of the universe," said Peter Behroozi of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., "Compared to all the planets that will ever form in the universe, the Earth is actually quite early."

Hubble has shown astronomers that young galaxies were churning out stars at a fast rate some 10 billion years ago. However, the quantity of hydrogen and helium involved in stellar production was low compared with the amount of these star-forming gases that exist today.

"There is enough remaining material (after the Big Bang) to produce even more planets in the future, in the Milky Way and beyond," said Molly Peeples, also of STScI.

By combining this knowledge from Hubble with exoplanetary data from Kepler, the researchers were able to form a picture of the habitable planet potential of our galaxy and use it as a model for the number of other habitable worlds existing throughout the cosmos.

Since Kepler started taking data in 2009, we've been introduced to a menagerie of small rocky worlds orbiting sun-like stars. Some of these thousands of worlds orbit their stars within the habitable zone — the region surrounding a star that's not too hot and not too cold to allow liquid water to persist on its surface. By extrapolating from Kepler's comparatively small dataset, astronomers have predicted that there should be around 1 billion Earth-sized worlds orbiting within their stars' habitable zones in the Milky Way. If we consider there are 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe, there's a huge number of habitable, Earth-sized worlds throughout the cosmos.

And the universe, according to this new theoretical study, has only just started in the planetary production business. The last star isn't expected to fizzle out for another 100 trillion years (when the universe will continue toward its perpetual march to "heat death"), so there's lots of time left.

With the help of these observations, the researchers predict that Earth 2.0 (i.e. rocky planets of Earth-like dimensions orbiting within their stars' habitable zones) will most likely pop up inside giant galaxy clusters or dwarf galaxies where reservoirs of star-forming (and therefore planet-forming) gases are known to reside. Alas, the Milky Way's planet-forming days are numbered, as much of these gases have already been consumed during our galaxy's heady "starburst" days.

Noted by the researchers is that the advantage of being an "early" civilization evolving at this time of universal evolution is that we have the awesome opportunity to study the early stages of cosmic evolution, using space telescopes (such as Hubble) to see the early formation of galaxies and witness observable evidence for the Big Bang. For any future civilization in a trillion years time, the universe will look very different than it does now — fewer galaxies will be visible and the earliest evidence for the Big Bang (such as the cosmic microwave background radiation) will have further ebbed away.

It's interesting to ponder how an intelligent alien civilization will interpret a more mature, perpetually expanding universe lacking the cues to its origin that we take for granted today. Would they assume, lacking contradictory evidence, that the universe has always existed? And that just because the universe is expanding, it doesn't mean there had to be a Big Bang?

Of course, this is just a fun thought experiment; predicting the existence of a future alien intelligence, let alone how they may interpret their cosmic environment, is presumptuous at best. But it does pose an existential problem beyond the Fermi Paradox. If the Earth is an early bloomer, and humanity is one of the first intelligent civilizations to pop up in a universe of infinite possibilities, how might our civilization unfold?

Who knows, but it seems the universe has the boundless potential to form new worlds and new life (and new intelligences) that will potentially form long after humanity and life on Earth has come and gone, eventually succumbing to the inevitable death of our sun in about 5 billion years time. This study serves to remind us that our time as an intelligent life form in the universe is fleeting, and it seems many more intelligences will evolve long after we are gone.

Russia Announced They Have Found a Ship in the Ice

The first class of Admiral Vladimir Prikhodko, who is currently the director of the secret organization of the Russian navy, said that powerhouses such as the U.S, China, Germany and even Russia, are investing million dollars in the outer space, to gain the ownership..

However, why we have to spend too much money and waste time to research it, if we could have a great investment in the underground to find out the true stories of our origins.

After the World War II ended, Russia has took many times to research and explore the subsistence of UFOs. Recently, they have found out some strange things like deep holes and caves which have ancient hieroglyphs and ship in the ice.

Temple Professor Claims Aliens Have Abducted Millions of Humans

David M. Jacobs, Ph.D. of Temple University.

No need to look to the stars in our search for extraterrestrial life; aliens might already be here among us on Earth...Or at least that's what retired Professor David M. Jacobs thinks.

According to Jacobs, extraterrestrial beings have been abducting and sexually molesting humans the world over for aeons, all to create a hybrid race of alien-humans who walk the earth unnoticed but will eventually take over the planet.

But Jacobs isn't your typical UFOlogist. Tenured for 36 years as a Professor of American History at Temple University, Jacobs is a 71 year old intellectual-type who, according to Philly.com makes his case with "well-reasoned, articulate explanations and applies scholarly approach to his research which he has shared in four books- printed by well-known and academic publishers."

Jacobs says he is well aware of the stigma that surrounds Ufology."I knew that it was embarrassing to the university," says Jacobs of his stance on UFOs. "I was not rewarded for my views [...] But you do not often find yourself in the middle of a phenomenon that allows you to make a contribution to something that could be of unsurpassing importance in human history," Jacob adds.

"What I'm doing will either be an interesting but nonessential footnote to popular culture or the most important thing that's ever happened to humankind. I see it as the latter," explains Jacob.

Jacobs claims his evidence is solid, collected primarily from the 150 abductees that he has interviewed over the years. He claims that these abductees independently report similar experiences, recalling common details of intense eye-contact, and neurological scanning. Based on researching this small sample, Jacobs has drawn the conclusion that the number of abductees across the world numbers in the millions.

Jacobs details some of his other conclusions to Philly.com's Dana Difilippo, stating, among other things, that the families of some abductees reported seeing their loved ones simply disappearing into thin air. Other findings included the discovery of mysterious scar tissue on the bodies of abductees and groups of people recalling the same mass-abduction events despite never having seen each other before.

Jacobs, who claims to never have actually witnessed a UFO or Alien abduction himself, began his journey into Ufology as a college student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1970s. After running into some interesting literature about Aliens and UFOs, he decided to change his dissertation from the portrayal of women in pre-1915 films to the UFO controversy in America.

But what began with what he used to think was "the most amazing, wowee, gee-whiz thing," quickly escalated into the realm of reality for him. "[T]he more I learn about it, the more I fear it, the more I don't want to have anything to do with it," Jacob now reflects.

"This is a clandestine phenomenon," Jacobs said. "There is one thing that I can say for sure: They don't want us to know what they're doing - because what they're doing benefits them and not us."

Most people ‘in the know’ realize that NASA is just part of the military industrial complex, but a recent open admission on mainstream news that “there are indications of alien life” is likely the beginning of a bid to get your undivided attention before full-forced disclosure ensues.

“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.”

It isn’t going to take that long if we open our eyes.

Stofan goes on to say:

“We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”

What we’re going to understand is that our ‘secret’ government has been hiding this fact for ages. In an effort to transition the US and other countries through its reach to a cabal-run oligarchy, ourshadow government has been lying about off-planet corporate slavery rings, alien abductions, benevolent beings who can only do so much until our collective consciousness elevates, and much, much more.

William Cooper, among others, tried to disclose the true purpose of NASA, but he was exterminated. His death, among thousands of others, will not be in vain.

We will also learn that chemtrails and GMOs were the LEAST of plans made for us ‘sheeple’ and ‘useless eaters’ by a Luciferian cabal, and that President Harry Truman signed a document with certain ETs that allowed the ‘elite’ to conduct highly technological experiments with intelligence gained from these ETs in exchange for looking the other way when certain humans were abducted for ET experiments.

We will learn that we are not helpless, as we have been programmed to believe. We are, in fact, a rare humanoid race that has an incredible range of emotion and creative power. We will learn that our minds and emotions can either fuel chaos on this planet, or restore it to its rightful place of peace and cooperation, of care for others at least as much as ourselves.

We will learn that our ascension into infinitely peaceful beings is indeed possible, and it has been described in countless books, many of which have been suppressed along with UFO information.

NASA is telling us now that the likelihood of alien life is a ruse. Be sure to remember those who have been executed to try to prove this information to us decades ago, and to use discernment when the truth is finally revealed.

Monkeys paved the way for us to reach the moon and now Russian scientists are hoping the animals will be key to getting a human colony to Mars.

Experts from the Russian Academy Of Science are training four rhesus macaques to travel into space and land on the red planet - although it is unclear if they will also bring them back.

This training, which includes using a joystick and solving puzzles, should make them capable to man a mission within the next two years.

Experts from the Russian Academy Of Science are training four rhesus macaques (one pictured) to travel into space and land on Mars. This training, which includes using a joystick and solving puzzles, should make them capable to man a mission to the red planet within the next two years

The program launched in the 1980s and is being carried out at the Institute of Biomedical Problems, based at the academy.

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For scientific projects such as these, monkeys are hand-reared in special farms, where only the most intelligent are selected to take part in the research.

PRIMATES IN SPACE

Ham (pictured) was launched into space as part of America's space program in January 1961

The first primate to go to space was Albert I in June 1948 on a US military V-2 rocket. He suffocated and died during the flight.

A year later a second V-2 took Albert II to an altitude of 438,250ft (83 miles), the rocket returned but Albert II died on impact.

In December that year, Albert IV was sent into space wired up to machines that monitored his health. He suffered no ill effects while in space but, like Albert II, he died on impact.

It took another two years before another monkey, this time called Yorick, made the journey to 263,000ft (50 miles) and survived. .

Ham, also known as Ham the Astrochimp, was launched into space as part of America's space program in January 1961.

His vital signs and tasks were monitored during his 16 minute and 39 second fight and he splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean.

All four of the rhesus macaques in this latest study were chosen for their cognitive abilities and their quick-learning skills, explained the scientists.

Each day a team, led by Inessa Kozlovskaya, trains the monkeys to control a joystick and hit a target highlighted by a cursor.

When they complete the task successfully they are rewarded with a sip of juice.

Once they have mastered this task the macaques will be trained to solve simple mathematical tasks and puzzles.

At the end of their training the creatures should be capable of completing a daily schedule of tasks on their own.

The scientists are hoping this will be achieved by 2017.

Dr Kozlovskaya said the main goal is to teach monkeys to perform a particular range of tasks which they will be able to remember.

'What we are trying to do is to make them as intelligent as possible so we can use them to explore space beyond our orbit,' she said.

The team is also hoping that the space monkeys will be able to train others and integrate them into the team.

Macaques typically have a lifespan of around 25 years, so it is hoped there is enough time to train them properly and for them to survive the six-month trip to Mars, added the team.

The first primate to go to space was Albert I in June 1948 on a US military V-2 rocket.

He suffocated and died during the flight.

A year later, almost to the day, a second V-2 took Albert II to an altitude of 438,250ft (83 miles), the rocket returned but Albert II died on impact.

In December that year, Albert IV was sent into space wired up to machines that monitored his health.

He suffered no ill effects while in space but, like Albert II, he died on impact.

It took another two years before another monkey, this time called Yorick, made the journey to 263,000ft (50 miles) with 11 mice. Yorick was the first primate to survive a space trip.

Ham, also known as Ham the Astrochimp, was then launched into space as part of America's space program in January 1961.

Russian mission to Mars to be conducted by space monkeys

Every day, a team trains the monkeys to control a joystick and hit a target highlighted by a cursor (pictured). Once they have mastered this task, the macaques will be trained to solve mathematical tasks and puzzles

When the monkeys complete the tasks successfully they are rewarded with a sip of juice (pictured). At the end of their training the creatures should be capable of completing a daily schedule of tasks on their own

His vital signs and tasks were monitored and he was able to pull levers during the flight, demonstrating that these tasks could be performed in space.

His total flight time was 16 minutes and 39 seconds and he splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean.

Dogs have also been sent into space.

In the early 1950s, the Soviets sent two, called Dezik and Tsygan, into orbit and they survived.

Dezik died during a second flight, alongside a dog named Lisa. Another two died on a subsequent trip.

Dr Kozlovskaya said that the main goal is to teach monkeys to perform a particular range of tasks which they will be able to remember. Macaques typically have a lifespan of around 25 years, so it is hoped there is enough time to train them properly and for them to survive the six-month trip to Mars, added the team

Elsewhere, Nasa is hoping to get to Mars by the 2030s.

In addition to its rovers, the space agency is currently investigating the long-term effects of space travel on humans as part of its twins study.

Astronaut Scott Kelly is more than half-way through a year-long stay on board the ISS, while his brother Mark has remained on Earth.

Nasa plans to study how Scott responds to life in space by comparing his body to his brother's on his return next year.

The first primate to go to space was Albert I in June 1948 on a US military V-2 rocket. He suffocated and died during the flight. In 1961, Ham (pictured) the Astrochimp was sent into space and his vital signs and tasks were monitored. He splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean 16 minutes and 39 seconds later

Nasa is hoping to get to Mars (colony illustrated) by the 2030s. In addition to its rovers, the space agency is currently investigating the long-term effects of space travel on humans as part of its twins study

Ben Rich: "ET UFOs are real!"

According to article published in May 2010 issue of the Mufon UFO Journal - Ben Rich, the “Father of the Stealth Fighter-Bomber” and former head of Lockheed Skunk Works, had once let out information about Extraterrestrial UFO Visitors Are Real And U.S. Military Travel To Stars. What he said might be new to many people today, but he revealed the information before his death in January 1995. His statements helped to give credence to reports that the U.S. military has been flying vehicles that mimic aliencraft.

The article was written by Tom Keller, an aerospace engineer who has worked as a computer systems analyst for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

1 : “Inside the Skunk Works (Lockheed’s secret research and development entity), we were a small, intensely cohesive group consisting of about fifty veteran engineers and designers and a hundred or so expert machinists and shop workers. Our forte was building technologically advanced airplanes of small number and of high class for highly secret missions.”2 : “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.”3 : “We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars. First, you have to understand that we will not get to the stars using chemical propulsion. Second, we have to devise a new propulsion technology. What we have to do is find out where Einstein went wrong.”4 : When Rich was asked how UFO propulsion worked, he said, “Let me ask you. How does ESP work?” The questioner responded with, “All points in time and space are connected?” Rich then said, “That’s how it works!” Ben Rich Lockheed Former Director knew of extraterrestrial UFO visitors.

According to a CNI News report by Colorado resident Michael Lindemann, the design information was derived from forensic illustrations and numerous witness testimonies about the Roswell UFO, provided by William L. “Bill” McDonald. In an e-mail, dated July 29, 1999, apparently addressed to Lindemann, McDonald referenced an excerpt of a discussion with Harold Puthoff, founder of the highly classified U.S. “remote viewing” program.McDonald said: “Well Hal, you asked for it! Now that legendary Lockheed engineer and chief model kit designer for the Testor Corporation, John Andrews, is dead, I can announce that he personally confirmed the design connection between the Roswell Spacecraft and the Lockheed Martin Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs), spyplanes, Joint Strike Fighters, and Space Shuttles.Andrews was a close personal friend of "Skunk Works" director Ben Rich -- the hand-picked successor of Skunk Works founder Kelly Johnson and the man famous for the F-117 Nighthawk "Stealth" fighter, its "half-pint" prototype the "HAVE BLUE", and the top-secret F-19 Stealth Interceptor. Before Rich died of cancer, Andrews took my questions to him.Dr. Ben R. Rich former Lockheed Skunk Works director confirmed:1. "There are 2 types of UFOs - the ones we build and the ones 'they' build. We learned from both crash retrievals and actual "hand-me-downs." The Government knew and until 1969 took an active hand in the administration of that information. After a 1969 Nixon "purge", administration was handled by an international board of directors in the private sector…2. Nearly all "biomorphic" aerospace designs were inspired by the Roswell spacecraft - from Kelly's SR-71 Blackbird onward to today's drones, UCAVs, and aerospace craft…3. It was Ben Rich's opinion that the public should not be told [about UFOs and extraterrestrials] . He believed they could not handle the truth - ever. Only in the last months of his decline did he begin to feel that the "international corporate board of directors" dealing with the "Subject" could represent a bigger problem to citizens' personal freedoms under the United States Constitution than the presence of off-world visitors themselves.”Lindemann added that “Bill McDonald received the above information from Andrews from 1994 until their last phone call near Christmas in 1998.” Lindemann also noted “It should also be known that Dr. Ben R. Rich attended a public aerospace designers and engineers conference in 1993 before his illness overwhelmed him in which he stated - in the presence of MUFON Orange County Section Director Jan Harzan and many others that – ‘We’ (i.e., the U.S. aerospace community/military industrial complex) had in it's possession the technology to "take us to the stars".Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer USAF, and CIA Contractor Admitted : UFOs Are Real

Don Phillips, "These UFOs were huge and they would just come to a stop and do a 60 degree, 45 degree, 10 degree turn, and then immediately reverse this action".

During the Apollo landing, Neil Armstrong says, "They're here. They are right over there and looking at the size of those ships., it is obvious they dont like us being here”. When I was working with the Skunkworks with Kelly Johnson, we signed an agreement with the government to keep very quiet about this. Anti-gravitational research was going on. We know that there were some captured craft from 1947 in Roswell, they were real. And, yes, we really did get some technology from them. And, yes, we really did put it to work. We knew each other from what we call an unseen industry. We can term it black, deep black, or hidden. The knowledge I have of these technologies came from the craft that were captured here. I didn`t see the craft, nor did I see the bodies, but I certainly know some of the people that did. There was no question that there were beings from outside the planet.And if alien were hostile, with their weaponry they could have destroyed us a long time ago .We got these things that are handhold scanners that scan the body and determine what the condition is. We can also treat from the same scanner.I can tell you personally that we've been working on them. And we have ones that can diagnose and cure cancer. One of the purposes I had for founding my technology corporation in 1998 was to bring forth these technologies that can clean the air and can help get rid of the toxins, and help reduce the need for so much fossil fuel. Yes, it is time. I can tell you personally that it has already started. pp. 375 ,383.Download this DISCLOSURE document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/30425722/Disclosure-Military-and-Government#open_downloadAnother Lockheed Martin senior research scientist Boyd Bushman : "Extraterrestrial UFO visitors are real". Read article here.

This video has been "unlisted" due to the reoccurring comments on trying to correlate demonic association of UFO phenomena to Christian liturgy, dogma and belief systems. Please save your opinions to your congregations and not that of this YouTube Channel. Thank you, Johnny Tortuga,

Observations by NASA's Kepler space telescope revealed that the star KIC 8462852, which lies about 1,500 light-years from Earth, dimmed dramatically and strangely several times over the past few years. Researchers aren't sure what's going on, and they have posited that some sort of light-blocking "alien megastructure" is a possible — though unlikely — explanation.

"We are the most skeptical people on the planet," Robert J. Sawyer, a Canadian sci-fi writer who regularly discusses alien life in his novels, toldSpace.com. His 23rd novel, "Quantum Night," will be published in 2016. "It is hard to find a science-fiction writer who believes in UFOs or flying saucers," Sawyer said.

Sawyer added that journalists, by contrast, often pump up the news because they "smell front page." And while Sawyer supports the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) because it is so cheap to listen for radio signals, he said it's meaningful that, in five decades of searching, nothing has come up so far. Aliens, he said, may communicate by other means.

All that being said, what if KIC 8462852 does host an alien megastructure? What might it look like? Sawyer and fellow sci-fi novelist Larry Niven shared some ideas with Space.com.

One possible use of a megastructure could be a sort of calling card, which was covered in Sawyer's 1994 novel "End of an Era." In that book, a paleontologist travels back to the time of the dinosaurs, some 65 million years ago, and spots a rosette pattern of stars in the sky. Upon analysis, it's clear the structure is far away; there is no parallax, or shifting in position when you view it at different times of the year (and at different points in Earth's orbit).

"You have to conclude that some now-extinct alien civilization was announcing itself to the universe by doing a mega-engineering project, moving the stars in a geodesic sphere so that from any vantage point, you would see it," Sawyer said.

Another use for a megastructure could be to harvest energy from a star, which is famously discussed in Niven's "Ringworld" series. Niven was inspired by the idea of a Dyson sphere — a shell or system of objects that would surround the star and collect its light.

In some cases, a Dyson sphere could be constructed as an artificial world with a water cycle, atmosphere and so on. Niven's twist, first articulated in the 1970 novel "Ringworld," was to have an object only around the star's equator — a ringworld — in part because spinning a Dyson sphere would force the atmosphere and oceans to the equator anyway. [Dyson Spheres: How Advanced Alien Civilizations Would Conquer the Galaxy (Infographic)]

"The Dyson sphere looked wonderful, but I decided to make a cheaper version," Niven toldSpace.com. "[The public] loved it. I was surprised, and before that, I was a little worried. I wasn't sure they'd take it seriously. Once I opened the field, there were enough new problems to make a [book]shelf all based on ring structures."

One problem with the ringworld is that it would eventually break apart due to gravity from the star — an issue that both Sawyer and Niven pointed out. In Niven's next book on that concept, "The Ringworld Engineers" (1979), he stabilized the ringworld using attitude jets on the rim, which were powered by the solar wind (a stream of particles coming from the sun). He also made the ringworld's floor — the side facing the sun — magnetic so that it would interact with the sun's magnetic field and keep the ringworld aligned with the equator.

Glowing fires

Niven said he is also skeptical that the new find is an alien megastructure, but he said it could be suggestive of a Dyson cloud — a huge collection of solar panels to harvest the sun's energy. Stars could also be moved around to gather energy more efficiently — an idea that Gregory Benford and Niven cover in their jointly authored books "The Bowl of Heaven" (2012) and "Shipstar" (2014).

Aliens probably wouldn't use such a megastructure to act as a cosmic calling card, Niven added, as doing so would be very expensive.

However, Sawyer noted that there is historical precedent for making (or at least proposing to make) big structures that do little more than say hello. In the late 1800s, when some people believed there were canals and a dying civilization on Mars, Joseph Johann von Littrow (as the story goes) suggested digging huge canals in the Sahara, filling them with kerosene and setting them on fire.

Researchers build world's first working sonic tractor beam

A sonic tractor beam built by the universities of Sussex and Bristol is shown on Oct. 23, 2015. (Youtube / University of Sussex)

Nick Wells, CTVNews.ca

It's long been the stuff of sci-fi fantasy, but a team of researchers say they have built the world's first working sonic tractor beam.

Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex along with Ultrahaptics, a company that was started out of a project from the University of Bristol, claim to have built a sonic tractor beam that can move objects using sound waves.

The researchers published a report on their technique in the science journal "Nature Communications" on Tuesday.

"In our device we manipulate objects in mid-air and seemingly defy gravity. We can individually control dozens of loudspeakers to tell us an optimal solution to generate an acoustic hologram that can manipulate multiple objects in real-time without contact," University of Sussex professor of informatics Sriram Subramian said in a statement.

Unlike in previous attempts to create “tractor beams,” the object doesn't need to be completely surrounded by loudspeakers in order to manipulate it.

The group found that, by altering the sound wave output, the high-intensity sound waves create a force field that can keep a bead in place, move it around, and even combine multiple beads.

"We all know that sound waves can have a physical effect. But here we have managed to control the sound to a degree never previously achieved," said Bruce Drinkwater, a professor of ultrasonics with the University of Bristol.

Unlike the tractor beams audiences are accustomed to seeing dragging unsuspecting humans into orbiting UFOs, researchers envision this technology could one day have applications in medicine, for example, moving or manipulating everything from kidney stones to micro-surgical instruments without interfering with magnetic resonance imaging.

The next step is building a larger version that is capable of levitating a soccer ball from 10 metres away, and building a smaller version that can manipulate particles inside the human body.

Fake UFO spotted over Johannesburg

BY Devlin Brown

Fake UFO in Johannesburg.

PICTURE: Austin Rossouw

Dramatic footage of a fake UFO hovering over the Nelson Mandela bridge in Johannesburg is sure to set twitter alight.

A photo of a UFO hovering over the N1 highway in Midrand has set social media alight, with people sharing the picture and commenting on what they saw. UFOs always get people excited – and afraid – and perhaps it has something to do with the excitement of not being alone in the ginormous universe.

Connect picked up the photo on facebook just before it went viral, before it launched like a flying saucer into the stratosphere overnight. The original story, which can be read here, shows a giant saucer-shaped, ominous-looking, creepy-villain dwelling space ship just above the clouds.

Austin Rossouw, a graphic artist and animator from Johannesburg, took up The Citizen’s challenge of producing a photo of a UFO above the skyline of Johannesburg. His brief was simple: check out the original photo and give us something that looks like it was taken with a cell phone inside a moving car and put it in a cool location, such as Braamfontein – and make it confusing: maybe it’s a thunder cloud and maybe it is a Zorkmobile from planet Zork (it’s always Zork). 30 minutes later, we had our very own UFO in Johannesburg.

Fake UFO in Johannesburg.

PICTURE: Austin Rossouw

The point of the exercise is to show two things – just how cool Adobe suite is, but also, how easy it is to go viral. One would have thought that in 2015 people would have moved on from believing everything they see and read, just because they see and read it – but that is not the case. Although some people took the picture as a joke, many others shared the photo believing it just might be true.

If the UFO is in fact real, and here I am making a mockery of graphic design 101 and all the believers of the great alien conspiracy, then the joke will be on me. Think about it, these super advanced, freaky (no doubt slightly prawny) beings are here to impress upon us their superiority and here is a little you-know-what called Devlin Brown posting a picture of a fake cloudy UFO in a cooler location – definitely a hipster time-traveler. What if they get cross with me?

Come to think of it – I have been hearing a low rumble behind the window since I started this experiment. My screen flashes and the cursor moves by itself. I’m feeling a bit dizzy, and… the lights are flashing. What is going on? Who’s there? I am just trying to pu ASDA ASD ASD….

No, a UFO named WTF is not threatening to destroy Earth

Let's start with the facts: Yes, there's something hurtling through space in our direction. Yes, it's going to enter the Earth's atmosphere and possibly land in the Indian Ocean next month. No, scientists don't know quite what it is. And, no, that doesn't make it a UFO.

The European Space Agency released information last week about an object spotted streaking through space and heading toward Earth. Headlines are zeroing in on the chance of impact and the unidentified object's comically apropos nickname. Officially named WT1190F, the object's catalog number has been popularly shortened to "WTF."

But ESA scientists have a pretty good idea of what it could be -- probably a remnant from a past mission, like the hollow shell of part of a spent rocket -- and they're confident that it's unlikely to be a threat.

"The expected 13 November reentry of what is likely to be a rocket body poses very little risk to anyone," they wrote on the ESA blog Thursday.

"The object is quite small, at most a couple of meters in diameter, and a significant fraction if not all of it can be expected to completely burn up in the atmosphere," said Tim Flohrer, from ESA's Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany.

Whatever remains of the space junk after the fiery reentry is expected to fall into the Indian Ocean, about 60 miles off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, on Nov. 13.

Space object WT1190F observed on 9 October 2015 with the University of Hawaii 2.2-metre telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

"The good news is that three-quarters of the world is ocean, so the odds are that it's going to land somewhere in the ocean and the ocean is a big place," he added. "Statistically I think there's no point in worrying about this one."

WT1190F was first discovered in 2013 by the Catalina Sky Survey, which identifiesnear-Earth objects in space. It has been observed several times since then by the same team.

Scientists hope to use observations to better understand how objects -- "man-made or natural" -- behave upon entry into Earth's atmosphere.

Marco Micheli, an astronomer at ESA's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre, said, "The first goal will be to better understand the reentry of satellites and debris from highly eccentric orbits."

"Second, it provides an ideal opportunity to test our readiness for any possible future atmospheric entry events involving an asteroid, since the components of this scenario, from discovery to impact, are all very similar."

Harwood explained that watching WT1190F could help scientists understand "what exactly happens when something comes into the atmosphere at extremely high speed and breaks apart: Where in the altitude does the break up start? How much debris reaches the surface?"

He also thinks it would be particularly interesting if scientists could identify the object, which could potentially be a piece of equipment left over from the Apollo missions.

The real-life UFO story behind this season of 'Fargo'

Val Johnson sat inside a new Marshall County squad car two months after the incident.Regene Radniecki | Star Tribune 1979

"This is a true story."

Those words kick off every episode of "Fargo" — they were also at the start of the 1996 movie.

Of course the Coen brothers, and now show creator Noah Hawley, are playing fast-and-loose with "truth." But one of the most unbelievable, out-of-this-world parts of season two is, in fact, "a true story."

(Stop reading now if you're not caught up, Fargo watchers.)

We're talking about the aliens.

So far, unexplained lights and UFO-talk have been in all three episodes of "Fargo," which takes place in and around Luverne, Minn., in 1979.

For these supernatural allusions, Hawley may be pulling straight from the local history books.

Minnesota in the 1970s was something of a hotbed of UFO activity — for the people who believe in that kind of thing. "This was a big decade for UFOs in Minnesota," said Dave Kenney, co-author of "Minnesota in the 70s."

The end of the decade, 1979, brought one of the most notorious unexplained encounters in the whole UFO canon: Val Johnson's late-night crash.

A few weeks after the incident, Johnson stood where he says he was engulfed by a flash of light, and indicated how big the beam was as it approached.Stormi Greener | Star Tribune 1979

Johnson was a Marshall County sheriff's deputy on night patrol outside Warren, Minn., near the North Dakota-Minnesota border. In the early hours of Aug. 26, 1979, he was driving a rural stretch of State Highway 20 when, he says, a ball of light appeared in the road.

"I noticed a very bright, brilliant light, 8 to 12 inches in diameter, 3 to 4 feet off the ground," Johnson said in a taped police interview. "The edges were very defined."

The next thing Johnson knew, the light was in the car with him.

It hit him, Johnson said, "like a 200-pound pillow."

Johnson's car is preserved at the county museum.Courtesy of the Marshall County Museum

He woke up in a ditch a half-hour later with burns around his eyes. The windshield and one headlight of his 1977 Ford LTD were smashed. Both radio antennas were bent sharply back. The watch on his wrist and the clock on the dash both ticked 14 minutes slow.

Police investigated and never drew any conclusions. But the UFO researchers have plenty of their own.

Jerome Clark, the author of "The UFO Encyclopedia," says the "Val Johnson Incident" remains one of the top 10 most influential UFO encounters in history.

MPR News reporter John Enger recently caught up with Johnson, 36 years after the incident. He's retired, with grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He lives in Eau Claire, Wis.

While believers tout the story as one of the strongest pieces of evidence of extraterrestrial life, Johnson won't speculate on what happened to him that night. He says he doesn't even think about it much.

Johnson's story has plenty of parallels to what "Fargo" fans are watching play out on TV: the small-town cop, the rural highways, the strange lights in the sky.

What remains to be seen is how far Hawley and "Fargo" will take their fictionalized version of the "Val Johnson incident."

When asked about the UFOs by "Vanity Fair," Hawley kept things mysterious: "Look, the Coens' universe is very much a place where you have to accept the mystery and figure out ... does it mean something? Does it not mean something?"

We'll have to watch and see.

Hear Val Johnson describe the encounter himself in the most recent episode of "Aw Jeez," a "Fargo" recap podcast.

This May Be the Best Alternative Explanation to That Extraterrestrial Dyson Sphere So Far

This May Be the Best Alternative Explanation to That Extraterrestrial Dyson Sphere So Far

by Janey Tracey

Within the next week, astronomers are expected to have an answer regarding the cause of the bizarre, irregular dips in brightness of star KIC 8462852, which have led many to speculate that we've found long-sought evidence of an alien civilization. Now, space blogger Jim Galasyn has an alternative explanation: the star itself is oblate, or lopsided, leading to the asymmetrical blockages of light.

While many stars experience dips in brightness as a result of the transit of other celestial objects, the dips of this particular star were unusual for being more extreme (up to 22%), asymmetrical, and non-periodic. The best explanation that involved a natural phenomenon was a string of comets circling the star, but this explanation is considered to be inadequate to fully explain the evidence. As a result, the astronomers who discovered the star began to look into the (admittedly remote)possibility of a Dyson sphere, or a megastructure built around the star by an advanced alien civilization.

When a star is oblate, it has a larger radius at its equator than it does at its poles. As a result, the poles have a higher surface gravity, and thus higher temperature and brightness. Thus, the poles are "gravity brightened", and the equator "gravity darkened".

Since there is variable brightness in different areas of the star, the irregular curves of light could be explained by planetarybodies moving across these brighter and darker areas. As planets of different sizes passed across different parts of the star, the brightness would change in asymmetrical and irregular ways.

"Did Kepler discover evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization?" Galasyn wrote on his blog. "Before we invoke aliens, we should consider the plausible natural explanation provided by Barnes:

'An oblique transit path across a gravity-darkened, oblate star leads to the long transit duration and asymmetric lightcurve evident in the photometric data.'"

Maybe It's Time To Stop Snickering About Aliens

An artist's concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of a star that is similar to our sun.

NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle

Have you heard the big news? If not, you haven't been paying attention to your Facebook feed.

For the past week or two, the Internet has been lighting up about alien megastructures that might, or might not, be orbiting a star called KIC 8462852.

So what should we make of it? Is it just hype deserving a long, slow roll of the eyes? Or is there something in the story that deserves serious consideration?

The answer to this question is, I think, surprising — especially given the next sentence I'm about to hit you with.

It's probably not aliens. Sorry.

Now, that's what you should expect me — a sober, rational, boring scientist — to say. In fact, many of my sober, rational, boring scientist colleagues had the same reaction I did when I heard the news. It went something like this: "Aliens?" (snicker, snicker) "Yeah, right."

But beyond our quick dismissals and snickers there hides a much more interesting reality. Maybe it's time for all of us sober, rational, boring scientists to stop snickering when these kinds of possibilities pop up.

Before we go any further, though, let's quickly review a few facts.

Last week's news was about the star KIC 8462852. The focus was on changes in the star's light output (its light curve) that had never been seen before. The observations were taken by the Kepler space telescope, whose job is discovering exoplanets by looking for partial eclipses, or transits, that occur as the planet passes in front of its host star. Kepler scientists know exactly what the drop in starlight should look like when they've discovered a planet.

But the light curve of KIC 8462852 looks nothing like a planet — or any other known astronomical phenomena.

"We'd never seen anything like this," Tabetha Boyajian, one of the authors on the discovery paper, told Ross Andersen at The Atlantic (see Andersen's post for details on the whole story). "It was really weird," Boyajain continued. "We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out."

Boyajian and her co-authors considered a wide range of possibilities to explain the strange dips in the light coming from KIC 8462852. Nothing they dreamed up provided a really, really good explanation. And in the absence of that really, really good explanation, at least a few others have been thinking: "Aliens!" As Andersen reports, Jason Wright of Penn State is already working on a paper suggesting we might be seeing a signature of extraterrestrial construction, a "swarm of mega-structures," on a planetary system scale.

That's because the point today is not what KIC 8462852, in particular, might be telling us. The odds are high that a natural explanation will be found for the star's flickering that has nothing to do with aliens.

Why take that stance? Well, aliens are always the last hypothesis you should consider. Occam's razor tells scientists to always go for the simplest explanation for a new phenomenon. But even as we keep Mr. Occam's razor in mind, there is something fundamentally new happening right now that all of us, including scientists, must begin considering.

Kepler and the many exoplanet-hunting missions coming next (JWST, PLATO, etc.) represent an entirely new way of watching the sky.

Telescope time has always been expensive — and there's a lot of sky. In the past, astronomers didn't have the technical capacity to continuously watch zillions of stars for long periods of time. The suns we astronomers did come back to again and again tended to be remarkable in one way or another (they flared or blew up periodically). But the exoplanet revolution means we're developing capacities to stare deep into the light produced by hundreds of thousands of boring, ordinary stars. And these are exactly the kind of stars where life might form on orbiting planets.

In fact, the express purpose of many of these missions is to find these planets and probe their light signatures so deeply we might "see" their atmospheres. In that way, we might also search for so-called bio-signatures. These are atmospheric molecules like oxygen and methane that will be present only if a biosphere has developed on the planet.

So we are already going to be looking at a lot of stars to hunt for planets. And when we find those planets, we are going to look at them for basic signs that life has formed. But all that effort means we will also be looking in exactly the right places to stumble on evidence of not just life but intelligent, technology-deploying life. It's as if your job was to look through lost-and-found wallets all day gathering dollar bills. Since you're already looking in the wallets, there is some chance you might stumble on a winning lottery ticket in one of them, too.

Of course, the odds of finding a winning lottery ticket are low. In the same way, seeing something unusual around a star is probably not evidence of an alien civilization. But given the large-scale exoplanet observations we are doing anyway, perhaps it's time to start thinking about how to think about the whole alien thing. David Grinspoon, the Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, put it succinctly when he told me:

"Lots of astronomers have been discussing all the possibilities for the light curve pretty responsibly. But some are really up in arms at even the mention of aliens. I think that's a mistake. Clearly, some things are more probable than others. But we have to learn how to handle these things [and] how to not to handle them."

I think Grinspoon is right. If we do lots of exoplanet observations, then we are bound to see new things. For most of them, we will find "natural" explanations. But for some of them we may also need to, at least, consider the possibility of something more than natural.

And that would mean going beyond snickering.

Adam Frank is a co-founder of the 13.7 blog, an astrophysics professor at the University of Rochester, a book author and a self-described "evangelist of science." You can keep up with more of what Adam is thinking on Facebook and Twitter:@adamfrank4

Date of sighting: October 15, 2015Location of sighting: Berkesville, Kentucky, USASource: MUFON #71941Aliens like to study humans, but not as much as they like to study our wildlife and plants. Drones are sent to record animal behaviors, smells, take samples, and so on so that the info can be brought back to their scientists to study. This looks like one of those drones. These drones travel incredibly fast, which is why it looks like 11 balls of light. Really its just a single ball of light. It looks like the flash from the camera scared it and its instantaneous reactions got it caught moving away. Scott C. Waringwww.ufosightingsdaily.comEyewitness states:1. Was at home watching TV and getting ready to go to bed. 2. First noticed it when I went to check what I had on game camera. I usually leave camera out for 1 week before I check to see what animals I got on film. 3. When I first saw the photo, I said to myself that's a UFO!4. Didn't see it in person. Only on film. 5. Sent picture to local MUFON investigators via email, but have received no reply email. I know them both.

Date of sighting: Oct 26, 2015Location of sighting: SE Phoenix, Arizona, USAGuys, Luke AFB is in Phoenix and has had many sightings of UFOs over the base in the last decade, so either aliens are keeping an eye on the base or this is a top secret USAF project. Hard to say, but if this UFO is govt, then it would not be hovering over the city for all to see. Scott C. Waringwww.ufosightingsdaily.comEyewitness states:Driving westbound in SE Phoenix on October 26 at 2pm I noticed in the far away distance a stationary object above the mountains. I could not video at first sighting as it was to far away. As I got closer to my exit I did mange to get this video. It was nothing like anything I have ever seen in the sky before...ever. From this distance it does have the appearance of a disc.

Shapeshifting UFO Appears In London

A British witness reported seeing and recording a dark object crossing the sky above London that changed directions, slowed down, hovered at times, and seemed to change in shape.The event took place at 2:55 p.m. on July 5, 2015, in London while the witness was sitting outside in the garden enjoying a cup of tea.

The witness said that he was watching three birds and then noticed another flying one in dark shape. The fourth one was not moving in a similar manner as the other three birds.

The witness started recording the object using a mobile phone for around two minutes. Then decided to get into a room to get a DSLR camera. He put the lens on a 50-300mm telephoto lens and went back to the garden.

He took several photos at full zoom, but the first 5 or 6 were over exposed. He failed to check the first set of images, perhaps because of excitement. He adjusted the setting and snapped another two photos at full zoom.

After shooting the last picture, the object disappeared into the witness line of sight. In his MUFON report, the witness described the object as a black dot travelling at regular speed on an erratic course. He also noticed in the video that the object changed direction many times, seemed to slow down, and hovered at other occasions.

The witness reviewed the photos and zoomed in to get a better look. In one image, the object seems stereotypical flying saucer with a lighter circle marking on it. In other photos, the object appears in an entirely different shape.

The case was reported on July 9, 2015, to MUFON and field investigator Jack Turnbull closed it as unknown after investigating it.

California Witness Snaps Triangle UFO

A witness from Yuba City in California reported seeing a triangle-shaped UFO and catching it in two photos while feeling uneasy to be in that location.

The witness went to Boyd’s pump to photograph a thunderstorm and lightning. When he ran out of space on an SD card, he went back to his home and transferred the photos to a laptop. After clearing the SD card, he went back to the same location to take more photos.

But, he felt uneasy this time. He got a weird feeling like he wanted to leave. It was quite intense for him, and he felt scared, but he was not sure the reason. When he got home, he transferred the second set of photos to the computer and noticed two different photos that captured a strange and mysterious object.

He saw a yellowish colored light with an odd shape that seemed to be shooting out of a cloud. When he zoomed in on the object, he noticed a triangle shape with a circle and marking that looked like a face on the bottom of it. He found it weird so he reported to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). His testimony is filed in the witness reporting database, Case 71166.

California MUFON investigator John Fegel investigated the case and closed it as Unknown.

Can These Sensors Scientifically Prove UFOs Exist?

This group of scientists seems to think so.

Star trails are seen in the sky over Naramata, British Columbia.Cultura/Zuma

A group of scientists and academics from around the world has launched a new effort called UFODATA, which stands for UFO Detection and Tracking, to apply some rigorous scientific research to the study of UFOs. This all-volunteer, nonprofit project that includes scientists from the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Chile intends to use scientific data and research methods to advance an issue that has largely been confined to the margins (at best) of the traditional scientific community.

"It's abundantly clear that we're not going to make progress in understanding whatever is causing the unknown UFO reports and sightings without getting the type of data we want to collect," says Mark Rodeghier, scientific director and president of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago, and now a UFODATA board member. "More witness testimony, where they fill out a form and tell you what they saw, is not going to help us solve the problem," he says. The problem that Rodeghier is referring to is the frequent, inexplicable sightings of aerial phenomena.

The group of about 15 scientists, engineers, astronomers, professors, and a journalist intend to install a series of automated surveillance stations loaded with scientific research tools at various locations in known UFO hotspots such as those in the western United States and in Hessdalen, Norway. The stations will be used to photograph unidentified objects and analyze the light coming from them in order to learn more about the sources of energy powering them. People have done this sort of thing in the past, but never before in such a coordinated and scientifically rigorous way.

The sensors that the group hopes to build will include several high-resolution cameras fitted with spectrographic grating, which is a method for analyzing thetype of light the camera is seeing, and the ways that energy might be affecting the atmosphere around the light source. Here is a video explaining the process. Other equipment includes a magnetometer, used to measure electromagnetic radiation, as well as a Geiger counter and a weather station.

"In this area of science (physics, astronomy, etc.) the best way to learn about something is to get its spectra," Rodeghier says. He compares it to a rainbow, which is a "spectra" of the sun's light. "You can see the elements it's composed of, you can also tell things about its temperature and pressure. There are many, many things that you can learn from a spectra and associated data."

These sensors aren't cheap. Each one will cost between $10,000 and $20,000, the group says, which they're hoping to raise through crowdfunding and other donations.

"UFODATA will rely on crowd funding to finance the stations, allowing the millions of people who take UFOs seriously to be involved in the effort, independent of the scientific establishment," wrote Leslie Kean, an American journalist and the author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record. After covering the issue for years, she's also now a board member for UFODATA. Kean announced the project on her Huffington Post blog earlier this week.

The all-volunteer group hopes to raise enough money to build one prototype station, test it, and prove the concept. Next year they plan to raise additional funds, Rodeghier says, after the project is better known and a more robust volunteer staff is in place.

Rodeghier says more reliable and scientific data will not only advance understanding of UFOs, but might also serve to persuade the public at large that this issue merits more serious examination.Nonetheless, the organizers appreciate that "the UFO community and the UFO problem is something that is pretty much looked down upon by what I call the establishment," Rodeghier says. "That includes scientists, big media, and politicians, Washington. All those people—and I'm speaking broadly because there's always exceptions—think the UFO problem, they laugh at it, it's to be ridiculed, and certainly shouldn't be supported and funded. And so yes, this is part of an effort, is to say, 'This problem is serious. It's like any other scientific problem.'"

But even the new organization has had to grapple internally with the taboo of scientific discussion of UFOs. The initial UFODATA team includes four "silent advisors"—two full professors, an attorney, and an astronomer—who "are prepared to lend a hand, but because of the cultural stigma attached to UFOs—or because of a personal preference for anonymity—have chosen to keep their involvement private" according to the group's website.

This unusual UFO was found by Streetcap1 of Youtube. It shows not one ship, but a large ship with a fleet of smaller ones near it. This photo comes when NASA announces that there is an unknown object near us about to hit Earth this week. They say its hollow and colder shaped and not natural. I do see a tube shaped UFO that NASA describes near it. This may be the UFO NASA is talking about. Strangely enough, NASA calls the UFO WT1190F or in other words...WTF. It hits us on Nov 14, 2015 at 2:20 PM. Scott C. Waringwww.ufosightingsdaily.comEyewitness states:Object appears to be quite close to the camera. I turned this to see what it looked like from different angles - this seemed to be the right way up, but it could be upside down for all I know.

Date of sighting: Oct 24, 2015Location of sighting: Tijuana, MexicoHere we have a UFO in the sky that is cloaked, but the sunset is causing it to reveal itself for a few minutes, due to the suns angle being 90 degrees to the UFO. UFOs often effect the appearance of the clouds or sky that they are in. Scott C. Waringwww.ufosightingsdaily.comEyewitness states:Strange phenomenon in the sky The all-seeing eye 10/24/2015 incident in Tijuana Mexico

Date of sighting: October 26, 2015Location of sighting: New Brunswick, CanadaOne of the hardest things to determine with a UFO recorded at night is...is it real? This UFO is real and I will tell you why. Some UFOs have tiny drone orbs that have many purposes like navigation, radar, scanning and so on. When you start and pause this video every second, you will see some orbs near it and in the same positions again and again in just a matter of seconds. The orbs are in a constant rotation around the UFO to protect the occupants. Yes, orbs means occupants in the craft. This my friends, is a 100% authentic and confirmed UFO. Scott C. Waringwww.ufosightingsdaily.comEyewitness states: Objects, alien crafts, bright orbs caught in and around the skies of Saint John New Brunswick, Canada.

First Hand Dulce, New Mexico’s UFO Testimonials Makes An Amazing Story

First Hand Dulce, New Mexico’s UFO Testimonials Makes An Amazing Story

If you have been looking at documentaries on space aliens lately, UFO occurrence, space aliens, and film-making technology are interesting. It is an interesting topic when you are a believer or not that extraterrestrial life visited this planet. However, it will be possible these extraterrestrials are not severely hostile, but they are just overly interested in learning us human beings, and the life we know, in general, so we perceive them to be intruders, especially when you think of alien abductions and unusual implants and cattle mutilations. Dulce, New Mexico may be a place, but lately, it seems, the description is not conclusive. This was being reported by a person who is interested in knowing the realities taking place in human life. The person was fortunate to meet the Arden Tafoya family, and on the second day, he learned that New Mexico is a place where residents became a witness to different strange sightings. Arden is the son of Raleigh Tafoya, who happens to be a highly respected Police Chief of Dulce.

The persons reiterated the report from his wife’s friend whereby a silent and massive delta-shaped object that is capable of emitting bright lights is seen passing in a group of 50 to 75 people when they celebrate Jicarilla Apache. This celebration is for young boys and girls. After sundown, the massive object appeared an hour or so after their traditional meals had ended and after the shamans had finished their dances and chantings. Another event recounted was during the daytime when a saucer-shaped hat possesses a silver object was being seen at around 11 a.m. However, the biggest and most impressive sighting occur in May of 2004 when families were celebrating the feast on a Jicarilla Apache campground, situated in a place near J-33 and J-40.

With regards to the witness’s conclusion to all sightings in Dulce, they are implausible because they were from first-hand eyewitnesses to the events.

Researchers Expect A UFO To Crash On Earth In November

Researchers expect a piece of space junk to plummet towards Earth in November, but they don’t have any idea of what is that exactly.

The space object called WTF1190F, is expected to land in the Indian Ocean, approximately 40 miles off the southern tip of Sri Lanka on November 13 at 6:20 UTC.

It could measure up to 7ft long. It comes from either a recent lunar mission or an Apollo program craft that has remained in space for over 40 years.

The object is expected to provide relatively small impact throughout its course until landing. Rather than threatening life on Earth, the object will offer scientists a once in a lifetime opportunity to observe the unknown object.

The trajectory of WTF1190F was first calculated in 2012. University of Arizona-based Catalina Sky Survey astronomers rediscovered the unknown object earlier this month.

Near Earth Object astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) are carefully monitoring the space junk’s path.

According to ESA, the object poses very little risk to people, but could greatly help scientists improve their understanding of how any object, be it natural or man-made, interacts with the atmosphere of Earth.

Independent astronomy software developer, Bill Gray, said that the space junk was moving in an elliptical orbit. Based on its movement, the object is likely hollow inside. The number of space junk that orbit the Earth and moon is unknown, but WT1190F is uncommon.

Gareth Williams, a Minor Planet Centre’s astronomer in Cambridge, said that the strange object was thought to be one of only around 20 man-made objects tracked in distant orbit. And the reason the object propelled on a collision course with Earth is still a mystery.

Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell of Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics based in Cambridge, Massachusetts said that WTF1190F is likely a piece of space history. While the junk is probably coming from recent missions, it can also be a piece from an Apollo Mission more than four decades ago.

If WTF1190F is a piece of man-made rocket, it will be first man-made junk to return Earth independently.

SEVERAL UFO’s SHOW UP IN ALASKA Pictures! 2015

An up close image of an Oval Shaped UFO coming from the side of the mountain. I captured several in only 2 photographs on this day and I took many pictures…I have a few others that show something but not as clear as these two.

Disc shaped UFO to the left up close shown below

Oval shaped UFO in Heat Map below

2nd Photographs shows several. I saw absolutely nothing this day. But I can say I remember hearing

5 Things That Would Happen If We Ever Found Intelligent Alien Life

The search for extraterrestrial life has been in the public consciousness for decades, but what would happen if we actually succeeded? Later this month, a NASA-funded initiative called the 100-Year Starship Project (100YSS), which is dedicated to achieving interstellar travel within the next century, will hold its annual symposium, which will specifically discuss the aim of finding "Earth 2.0," including what would happen to society if we ever actually found an Earth-like planet with an alien civilization.

"What would happen if we could identify it [as Earth 2.0]? How does that change us?" asked Mae Jemison, a former NASA astronaut and the principal for 100YSS, in a piece for The Atlantic.

Strict protocols would come into play

In 1997, SETI infamously had a false alarm that they found intelligent alien life, which was immediately picked up by the New York Times and blown completely out of proportion. After that incident, SETI created specific protocols for astronomers who believe that they have discovered alien life, in order to ensure that the information is properly verified and disseminated to the public through controlled channels.

First, the astronomers are supposed to verify to the best of their ability that the signals are not coming from any natural phenomenon, and then have it verified independently by someone outside of SETI. They should then inform astronomers in other nations, as well as the Secretary General of the UN, so the information can be dispersed through scientific and accredited public media outlets.

Someone would ruin the surprise on Twitter

But this is the 21st century, so the astronomers admit that none of these protocols would ultimately be followed. They would try, of course, but in the age of information, it would inevitably leak before it had been verified and released in a controlled manner. Blogs, Twitter, Reddit, and every other unofficial news authority would pick up on the story way earlier than intended. SETI director Seth Shostak said of the premature 1997 NYT leak, "There is no secrecy in SETI," and there is even less privacy now.

"The protocols are as much fiction, in some sense, as the movie portrayals. The story will break in a very messy way," said Shostak. "I don't think there's any way to control the media."